On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 14:11:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 08/30/2016 06:50 AM, John Burrton wrote:
This is why the example on the front page put me off for a
long time :-
stdin
.byLineCopy
.array
.sort!((a, b) => a > b) // descending order
.each!writeln;
Sadly if this doesn't float your boat you're unlikely to enjoy
most of what D has to offer. -- Andrei
I tried hard not to be misunderstood.
My problem isn't with this *code*. I think the fact that you can
do this in D and it's still in general likely to be close or
equal to the efficiency of a handwritten loop is awesome and a
great reason to use the language. I WANT to write code like this.
This is a problem with my perception. That such code was
necessarily going to be slow and bloated compared with C loops.
Which of course isn't true in D but I've seen that promise so
many times before that I took a look and thought, nice... but not
the language I want.
I wonder how many other people did the same.
Anyway I'll shut up now, I don't want any of this to sound like a
criticism. If anything it was my mistake, but one that the
example lead me to, wrongly :)
