On Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 15:45:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/30/12 2:14 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
It seems more and more that D2 is not a designed language.
Instead new
features are just slapped on without considering how it would
impact the
rest of the language.
What features are you referring to?
The concurrency model as this thread shows. There is no bridge
between shared and unshared data like const is to immutable and
mutable. Perhaps the monitor on every object should have been
removed when the new concurrency model was designed, as this
thread suggests.
"inout" was added long after the const system was added to D. If
done correctly this should have come up as a problem when
designing the const system. You cannot apply const/immutable to
an object reference in the same way as you can to a pointer.
It took some pretty good convincing for you to accept that
strings weren't enough as a substitute for lambdas. Fortunately
we have proper lambdas now :)
"const" doesn't play nice with ranges.
All these points have been mentioned before.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
