On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 18:48:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei and I had a fun discussion last night about this
question. The idea was which features in D are redundant and/or
do not add significant value?
A couple already agreed upon ones are typedef and the cfloat,
cdouble and creal types.
What's your list?
Here's my list:
- Properties. They add no value and just start pointless
discussions about what should and shouldn't be a property.
- UFCS. It's just sugar, but adds complexity.
- const/immutable/inout/shared/pure. These add massive complexity
to the language for little (IMO) benefit. When I do
multi-threading, I usually have to resort to casting. Maybe these
will improve with time.
- opDispatch. I think it just promotes sloppy, obfuscated code
for minor syntactical benefit. Member access through pointers
should require -> like in C++ so that you can overload it for
smart pointer/reference ADTs.
That's all I can think of for now.