On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 21:37:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/26/2013 1:59 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 4/26/13, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote:
An even better example:
import std.stdio;
void foo(bool x) { writeln("1"); }
void foo(long x) { writeln("2"); }
void main()
{
foo(1); // "1"
foo(false ? 2 : 1); // "2"
}
Kill it with fire.
How about this one:
import std.stdio;
void foo(short x) { writeln("1"); }
void foo(long x) { writeln("2"); }
void main()
{
foo(30000); // "1"
foo(false ? 40000 : 30000); // "2"
}
Walter, you're completely missing the point.
The point is that people can live with the consequences of your
short/long example, but they can't do the same with Andrej's
bool/long example.
No matter how right you are, if you keep insisting your way is
correct, D will continue never becoming popular because people
will continue finding it hard to use.
I think at some point it's worth noticing that "ease of use" is
_not_ a linear function of "technical correctness". You may be
right in technicality but that doesn't mean you're right on the
UI side.
