On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 18:31:18 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
TBH, I'm not a fan of inout. Not because of how most people
feel, that we shouldn't have it; IMO it doesn't go *far
enough*. For example, there's currently no way to express
conveying the constness of a delegate argument's parameter to
the return value, which would have been useful in some places
in generic code.
So it's in your list of wanted stuff, not in your list of excess
stuff. We're in agreement here.
What I would like to remove, is auto-decoding (popular
opinion, I know)
I would totally back up killing auto-decoding. With fire. And
extreme prejudice. :-P
barring some kind of workable (probably very long) deprecation
cycle, I just don't see it going away anytime in the
foreseeable future.
If we had something similar to c++ template lookup, it would, as
I see it, finally solve that, along with many other problems. But
bring some others, it's said... Better wrapper writing way than
alias this would also solve it mostly and without the ADL
problems, but there would still remain a problem with string and
char literals.
__traits, is expression, typeof and std.meta templates should
be invokable in a more UFCS-like manner
As for is-expressions, I think either Walter or Andrei
(possibly both) have acknowledged that the syntax is a mess.
But too much code already depends on the current syntax, and
changing that now will be far too disruptive.
But UFCS style also allows the traditional way, there would be no
breakage. So I quess that even here the existing thing is there
for a reason after all.
After reading Manus list, I think I agree with his point 1.
