• Andrei Alexandrescu (3/3) Oct 02 2013 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_of_facebooks_...
• bearophile (11/17) Oct 02 2013 The IamA is going well.
• Walter Bright (2/4) Oct 02 2013 Congrats! Looks like it was a huge success.
• Bruno Medeiros (5/8) Oct 08 2013 "The real question is: did you try llvm?"

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_of_facebooks_hhvm_team_a_c_and_d/

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Andrei

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Andrei Alexandrescu:

 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_of_facebooks_hhvm_team_a_c_and_d/

The IamA is going well.

Regarding this answer of yours:

Of the usual suspects present in FP languages, D notably misses 
pattern matching. It is in tension with OOP-style (first match 
vs. best match), and I'm not sure whether or not it's a 
fundamental feature of functional style. There are no plans to 
add such at this time.<

Adding a full pattern matching to D seems a bit much, but I think 
there are means to significantly increase the power of the D 
"final switch" with a limited amount of added complexity. The 
idea is to support switching on structs, something like the 
"unapply" standard struct/class method copied from Scala and 
perhaps variable binding.

Bye,
bearophile

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 10/2/2013 9:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_of_facebooks_hhvm_team_a_c_and_d/


 Ask, comment, upvote!


Congrats! Looks like it was a huge success.

Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+dng gmail.com> writes:

On 02/10/2013 17:16, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_of_facebooks_hhvm_team_a_c_and_d/


 Ask, comment, upvote!

 Andrei

"The real question is: did you try llvm?"

LOOOOOOOOOOL :D

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer