On 04-05-2012 02:13, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 3 May 2012 16:13, Don Clugston<d...@nospam.com> wrote:
On 03/05/12 16:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 5/3/12 9:55 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
On 28/04/12 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?
Other ones which were agreed to a long time ago were:
* NCEG operators
* built-in .sort and .reverse
Good ones. In fact I even discounted them from this discussion because
I'd already considered them gone. Walter agreed that I don't mention
them in TDPL, with the intent to have them peter out.
One good step right now would be to remove NCEG operators from the
online documentation. Later on, we'll consider them an accept-invalid
bug :o).
Well, they are also used in druntime, in core.stdc.math
BTW I *hate* that module, I don't know why it exists. Even worse, it seems
to be growing -- people are adding more things to it.
Practically everything in there has a better implementation in std.math.
I used core.stdc.math to map GCC builtins to math lib functions. This
allows for a lot of potential const folding that the D frontend does
not (currently) handle.
Does that play nice with errno?
--
- Alex
