Andrei Alexandrescu: > Anyway, I think this feature is thoroughly useless. An adage says that > the only numeric literals in a program should be 0, 1, and -1. How many > big integer literals can you think of right now?
OK, let's forget big integer literals for now :-) I agree that there are bigger fishes to talk about. For example I may like some things present in Delight, like especially this one (already discussed in the past, of course): http://delight.sourceforge.net/null.html Smaller things in Delight: Good to have: - An important difference between D and Delight is that a Delight array is considered true if and only if its length is non-zero: I like: - Also, D allows null to be used to mean an empty array. In Delight, you can only use []. Improvements in the imports: - Import all symbols into our namespace: import example.utils: * - Import a module, accessed by its full name: import dlt.io void sayHi(dlt.io.Printer p): ... Bye, bearophile
