• Simas <simas gmx.net> Nov 07 2007

Simas <simas gmx.net> writes:

Janice Caron Wrote:

 
 D is C-like, ...
 


The D Language is : "Its focus is on combining the power and high performance
of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and
Python". This does't exclude a productiv language like perl.

 However, I think it would be nice to get rid of the
 delegate type declaration altogether and git ourselves an implicit
 delegate argument


 Generally speaking, I don't. Although that said, D already supports
 variadic functions, so one could declare a function as accepting a
 tuple, and then refer to the arguments as tuple[n]. I do not believe
 this would increase readability, however, in cases where functions are
 not actually variadic!


I think this is a helpful feature. 

 
     auto base = "/path/to/dir/";
     auto absoluteDirs = map({ return base ~ $0; }, readdir(DIR));


 Yuk!
 
 Dollar zero? Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!
 
 Please, no!


Once again. Really nice.