On Monday, 23 December 2013 at 11:59:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 23 December 2013 at 11:50:08 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
This misunderstanding arose because the name of the construct
is misleading.
Can explain this a bit? What makes one miss distinction between
language term and library type? (Hint: latter is denoted by
CamelCase ;))
Language exists by itself, library feature is composed from
language features and, as it happens often, they can interact in
unexpected/unforseen/broken way.
Take typedef and Typedef for example (bearophile often posts
shortcommings of the latter). Irrespective of whether each of
them is good/bad, this is a clear example of differences between
language feature and library feature.
Personally I am upset when I get some weird Phobos structure
which simulates language feature, rathen then having feature in
the language in first place.