Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:05:03 +0000, retard wrote: > This is so unbelievable. I knew the property stuff was being redesigned > since there was so much talk in the ng some time ago. But even now, why > on earth doesn't it work like it should. Is it so hard to copy/steal the > good ideas from the better languages. Guess how C#/Scala solved this - I > bet having a PhD helps getting things right the first time.. >
Heh, after noticing the thread name "D hates to be dynamic linked" I should have probably renamed this thread with a funnier name such as "D stubbornly refuses to learn from mistakes and follow the principles of good language design". It took C# 4 years to get properties right. That period also included finishing a complete language specification document, totalling almost 500 pages. The property feature wasn't present in Pizza (2002), but Scala (2004 ->) had it. It was taken D 11 years to fail again and again miserably.
