On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:20 +0200, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote: > Yet, I'm kinda wondering about one thing. It seems to me some people > were, are and will be wanting inference for weak variables, regardless > the real benefits may be negligible. Even if it were just to have nice C > code where the reffing is not needed. Still, every time the question > comes up, people will spend much more time arguing the insignificance > then it would take to actually implement it... Quite
I hope you do understand that language design is not about how to add as many features as possible as quickly as possible. Every syntax addition has its merits and its drawbacks for both, users and implementors of the language. Adding syntactic sugar just because you can is not the right decision. If you make something more prominent in the language by adding syntactic sugar, you imply that you're encouraging its use and therefore also require that more users of the language should be able to understand it. If you do this for functionality that should only be used rarely, people will use it in situations where they shouldn't, which will lead to more bugs and confusion as, for example, dangling pointers and crashes. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
