On 2012-03-20 23:58, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
- Type inference
- alias
- foreach
- Everything about arrays/slices
- Built-in associative arrays that support nearly any type as a key
- Reference semantics for classes
- All the niceities of ctors compared with C++'s ctors
- Backtick strings
- Scope guards (And even finally: I head somewhere C++ doesn't even have
finally: Is that true?!?)
- GC
- Name any of D's metaprogramming features
Many of those can seem like simple things, but I'd *hate* to have to get by
without them. Heck, most of them I now take for granted.
Alias in particular is a much bigger deal than it seems since it's seemingly
trivial but can be *incredibly* helpful with templates *and* with importing.
Actually, looking at this list, I'm now starting to get a little worried
about an upcoming C++ project... No doubt I'll be trying to reinvent a lot
of D in it. Probably in ugly hackish ways.
I did that in one project. I emulated properties, using boost I emulated
foreach, auto, lambdas and other features. If you're using C++11 you'll
have these features native, expect for properties.
I did the mistake and learned D before I learned C++.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
