On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:02:15 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
I plan to give a talk at Lang.NEXT
(http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012) with the
subject above. There are a few features of D that turned out to be
successful, in spite of them being seemingly unimportant or diverging
from related consecrated approaches.
What are your faves? I have a few in mind, but wouldn't want to
influence answers.
The two that I would cite are auto and slice syntax. I see others have
chimed in with the same two.
These were two features that did *not* attract me to D, but I found them
to be two of my favorites, and ones I miss the most when writing in other
languages.
If I had to pick a third, I'd say the omitting parentheses for 1-arg
templates was something I didn't expect to be as great as it is.
Possibly one other thing I didn't expect to be so nice was shared (more
specifically, the implications when something is *not* shared). That
enabled weak-pure functions which I think are going to be a HUGE feature
for D.
-Steve
