Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:53:57 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 03/10/2010 04:38 AM, retard wrote: >> 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. > > I am having difficulty understanding what you are trying to convey. > > Andrei
People very rarely find any issues worth complaining in the property system implementations of those languages. I also forgot to mention Object Pascal. Does this mean that C#/Scala/Pascal users are just complaining less or are their property systems just better? When a new system is adopted by D, does anyone really analyze the large body of existing work done on the field. We don't live in a dark and closed barrel, we can learn from others and try to avoid common problems. e.g. to me a > object.field += something; /is/ a rather fundamental part of any property system. It's really surprising that it still doesn't work..
