Hi, > > The C syntax is unspeakably ridiculous, useless, and downright > dangerous. It shouldn't compile. > > In the past, Walter has mentioned a weak argument for retaining C-style > array declaration syntax, although I personally find it very > unconvincing. But C's hideous function pointer syntax is on a whole > other level. It's really hurting us. I believe it should be deprecated > immediately. But the 'function type' syntax shouldn't be allowed even as > a deprecated syntax. It's horrible. > > Patch included in Bug 4987.
I don't have much weight, but... seconded, definitely :) D needs to be as clean as possible, bad C syntax needs to go. -- Auria
