On 6/12/2014 3:10 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Sorry, saving 1-2 characters typing is really minor. This does not, in
my opinion of course, have any significant improvement on usability for
D. It simply does not carry it's own weight, and the potential to create
bugs in the foreach handling would be not worth the risk.
While I agree on its triviality, I really doubt there's much "weight" to
speak of either. Hara probably could've already implemented and tested
this in the same amount of time any *one* of us have already spent
bikeshedding it.
While I do not see this as a showstopper for anyone, including, it
doesn't warrant such vehement attack. It is a convenience feature that
improves the overall experience of the D programmer. A plus in my mind
and worthy of the time required to discuss, agree upon a solution and
implement.
It's not an attack of any kind, it's just a rebuttal. It in no way
reflects on the proposer or the defenders of the proposal. If there is
some significant improvement to be shown, I happily would reconsider my
position. Can you name a place where the improvement is more than just
saving the typing of 'i', 'j', or 'k'?
There are hundreds of such proposals made for D, and many of them are
rejected due to the lack of improvement to the language. This is not a
unique situation. The bar must be set high for new features, or we would
have a mess of a language.
FWIW: I think this can be viewed more as "Lifting undue restrictions".
