Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu escribió:
>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
>>>>> We better use "..".
>>>>>
>>>>>  int factorial(int c)
>>>>>  {
>>>>>     //writefln(fthis.stringof);
>>>>>     //writefln(typeof(fthis).stringof);
>>>>>
>>>>>     if (c < 2) return 1;
>>>>>     return ..(c - 1) * c;
>>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>> I hope this is a sarcastic reply :P
>>>
>>> My second. I was afraid the first one wasn't transparent enough.
>>
>> The contextual keyword iota, right?
> 
> That's the one! I think it even got a serious answer :o).

  Sarcasm starts working against the author if
  less than 25% of the audience recognize it.
                         --anon

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
>> Will it be implemented through __traits, or *yet another* compile-time introspection facility?
>
> Whatever it'll be, I'm sure it will not shut off your whine noise generator :o).

:P

I wasn't whining about it, I'd just rather not see a fifth method of compile-time introspection.

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:42:55 -0500, Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>
>>> Then, as Andrei suggested, we need a more flexible and fine-grained
>>> reflection mechanism.  :)
>>
>> Agreed, but are you also suggesting that a simple __FUNCTION__ should also
>> exist?
>>
>> By the way, my fear for D is that it is turning into an ASCII version of
>> APL.
>>
> 
> I don't know much about APL, what was wrong with it?

Plenty.

It was a write-only language, on a par with brainf**ck.

I've known guru-level apl programmers who regularly couldn't read their own code the next week.

It's probably the most concise way of writing heavy and ultra efficient data manipulation code.

It's a bit like spending a week writing an 80-character hairy regexp, and later trying to figure out how the heck it actually works.

----

But I think some of us should stick with D1.

Jarrett Billingsley, el  1 de marzo a las 11:07 me escribiste:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
> >> Will it be implemented through __traits, or *yet another* compile-time introspection facility?
> >
> > Whatever it'll be, I'm sure it will not shut off your whine noise generator :o).
> 
> :P
> 
> I wasn't whining about it, I'd just rather not see a fifth method of compile-time introspection.

It will be nice not to use a keyword starting with "__" for a standard feature either because that prefix has a long history of being used for vendor-specific extensions (not to mention its awfulness =)

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