On 10/08/2015 08:41 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
These, of course, are C++ operators that are replace with the . operator in D. But when I translate C++ code to D, sometimes these operators get left behind, and sometimes I simply reflexively type them into D code.The error message coming out of dmd could be better. I suggest recognizing -> and :: in the lexer, and saying something like: "The '->' operator is not in D, did you mean '.'?" Anyone want to do a PR for this? (Should be pretty straightforward.)
Semi-relatedly, a colleague who has heard many D sales pitches from me over the years is recently "looking at Go" and liking it very much. He came to me today telling me about this awesome Go feature where you just type a dot after a pointer and the language is so great that it works! You don't need to type (*p).member. Isn't Go awesome!
I responded "yep, it's a great feature and those gostards will never admit that they took that feature from D." (There is probably earlier precedence but it felt great to say it to my friend. :) )
Ali
