Meta comment: C++ is the spawn of the devil so I don't accept
anything related to c++ as a valid argument.
On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 20:09:34 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen
wrote:
[...]
I have used D and didn't claim that foreach isn't useful.
What I said that is that it belongs in the library, NOT the
language.
Yeah, we tried that in C++. It sucked.
See meta comment above.
The reason it works for many functional languages is that they
have even more terse syntax than D. It would suck to make
foreach a function in D.
D wants to support functional programming. That means we should
provide whatever is necessary to write functional style code
including foreach methods. IF D can't properly implement a FP
foreach method (And IMO it *can*) than we have failed.
* version - this does not belong in a programming language.
Git
is a much better solution.
So you'd maintain a git branch for every OS if there is some
small
part that is OS-dependent? I don't think that is a better
approach at
all.
It is far better than having a pile of #ifdef styled spaghetti
code.
I'd expect to have all the OS specific code encapsulated
separately anyway,
not spread around the code base. Which is the current
recommended way of
using
versions anyway. The inevitable conclusion would be to either
use a
version management system like git or have separate
implementation
modules for platform specific code and use the build tool to
implement
the logic of select the modules to include in the build.
Yeah, we tried that in C and C++. It sucked. See: Autotools.
see meta comment above.
The fact that you used a horribly designed language with a
horrible mess of a "build tool" made out of shell scripts IIRC is
not an indication that the language should include build-tool
functionality.
