Those <? >? look nice enough, and maybe they are worth adding to D.
But they are not essential.
Maybe they were removed because they are too much non-standard. It's like "and" and "or": "and" and "or" are much better than "&&" and "||", but adding them to just one compiler, and keeping the older operators around, doesn't help make them popular at all.
Bye, bearophile
