On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 12:26:13 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
- Anonymous nested classes: They might be useful in Java, particularly in older incarnations, but not so much in D – never used them.
I never used these until very recently. A couple weeks ago, I wanted to do some kind of range adapter kinda like Phobos does with the anon structs... but I wanted it to work with runtime too. So, I made an interface with empty, front, popFront, and then pulled out the old "return new class ByChunkRange" for the first time. I never expected that I'd use it, but it was nice to have for that time when I did decide I wanted it. That's my biggest concern with saying we have too many features. We might not use them often, but it would suck to say "that would be perfect" just to find it was removed later.
