Araq wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 January 2011 at 06:46:46 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> Andrei:
>>
>>> My fantasy: bearophile goes to the Nimrod forum and says "Hey, how
>>> about this D language, seems interesting..." :o)
>>
>> That fantasy of yours means that I am interested in using my time to
>> explain to Nimrod developers what's good in D, what may be modified or
>> improved, to steal some of the good ideas of the D language for the
>> development and spreading of Nimrod :-)
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> There is no need though. I'm already aware of D. And copied nothing from
> it; features like CTFE or UCS have been in Nimrod's design before D got
> them. Please consider that most of Nimrod's design is from 2004, but
> development is slow enough that other people got the same ideas. Nimrod
> is still different from D, and includes many features that D does not
> have (distinct types, AST macros, sum types, iterators, realtime GC) as
> well as lacks some "anti-features" (like unchecked unions or
> undetectable integer overflows).
>
One D feature I'm really missing in Nimrod is the
scope(exit/success/failure) statement. Other than that, I tend to
prefer Nimrod (easier syntax, better choice of names...)
Jerome
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