On 30 April 2012 10:32, Don Clugston <d...@nospam.com> wrote: > On 29/04/12 20:08, Manu wrote: > >> On 29 April 2012 18:50, Don <nos...@nospam.com >> <mailto:nos...@nospam.com>> wrote: >> >> >> On 28.04.2012 20:47, 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? >> >> >> * The >>> operator, which does nothing except introduce bugs (It >> does NOT perform an unsigned shift). >> >> >> What does it do? I use this all over the place, I assumed it worked... >> maybe I have bugs? >> > > It works only for two types: int and long. > For everything else, it is identical to >> > So for short and byte, and in generic code, it's ALWAYS a bug. >
O_O Is that intentional? Or is it... a bug? I smiled when I saw >>> in the language, I appreciate its presence. It's not necessary, but it cuts down on some ugly explicit casting (which theoretically makes generic code simpler).
