On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 21:43:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/20/2012 12:02 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
What are your faves? I have a few in mind, but wouldn't want
to influence answers.
Although array slices have been in D nearly since the
beginning, I had little idea they would become so darn useful
and foundational. They originated from an idea by Jan Knepper.
The unexpected utility of them explains why they haven't
appeared in other languages (yet).
As to me, slices are the most important feature of D, and they
were the major improvement from the start, aimed to fix the
buffer overflow vulnerabilities - the plague of low level
languages - at the lowest cost. What can do more than that? I
thought they were born to be epic: safety, minimalism a
efficiency combined.
