On Wednesday, 28 December 2011 at 00:21:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 14:07:25 Jakob Ovrum wrote:
And it is indeed very important. It's one of the few syntax
woes
we have to deal with in D, it would be a shame to let the
benefits of std.algorithm and any other functional D code be
overshadowed by the powerful but often excessive syntax of
anonymous functions.
I find this sort of discussion to be somewhat funny. I don't
think that it's a problem that D has added a new lambda syntax,
but what we've had _so_ much better than C++ 98 that I never
really cared. Sure, putting the return in there and all that is
a bit verbose, but at least we have lambdas! I almost never use
the algorithms in C++, because you have to define separate
functors elsewhere. You don't even get nested functions! So,
I've never seen much reason to complain about D's verbose
lambda syntax, because it's so nice to have what we have rather
than be forced to create functors and the like.
So, this is certainly a welcome change, but I've also found it
kind of odd that some people have been complaining about it so
much. Most of them probably aren't C++ programmers.
- Jonathan M Davis
So your argument basically boils down to: "I find it funny that
car owners (Non C++ programmers) complain about bicycles not
being fast enough. I mean, it's way better than walking
(Programming in C++)"
I fail to understand what's odd about that.
