Im sure this has been asked, but why isn't there any generic progeramming capabilities? I've checked the (SHAKES)/. post, and most of the complaints lay from the lack of any generic programming capabilities.

Also, howabout the use of {} in another context?

Take this code:

foo(34)
{
//do blah
}

Of course, here, we are not initializing the function. But what I propose is that the code block is evaluated or run if foo(34) returns a true.

Another example:

while(i<100)
{
check_iagainstb(i) //if i == b, return 1
{
printf("i is er, equal to b");
}
}

shortcut for

if (foo(34))
{
//do blah
}

Saves like 4 characters.  Is it worth it?  I'd bet it would cause some ambiguity somewhere in the parser.  And not only that but I doubt Walter will go for it; it looks similar to functional language constructs.  I'd personally like at least a ? mark or something sprinkled in occasionally to clarify the syntax.

foo(34)
{
}

doesn't look like much of a question to me.  It looks too much like a function declaration and also like a function call.  May be a more appropriate syntax for anonymous functions?  No, that wouldn't even work.

Sean

"Andrew Nguyen" <Andrew_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:apnbvd$2vin$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Im sure this has been asked, but why isn't there any generic progeramming capabilities? I've checked the (SHAKES)/. post, and most of the complaints
lay
> from the lack of any generic programming capabilities.
>
> Also, howabout the use of {} in another context?
>
> Take this code:
>
> foo(34)
> {
> //do blah
> }
>
> Of course, here, we are not initializing the function. But what I propose
is
> that the code block is evaluated or run if foo(34) returns a true.
>
> Another example:
>
> while(i<100)
> {
> check_iagainstb(i) //if i == b, return 1
> {
> printf("i is er, equal to b");
> }
> }
>
>
>
>

The D support for generic programming is the template support, which is implemented. The slashdot post is a year out of date <g>. -Walter

"Andrew Nguyen" <Andrew_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:apnbvd$2vin$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Im sure this has been asked, but why isn't there any generic progeramming capabilities? I've checked the (SHAKES)/. post, and most of the complaints
lay
> from the lack of any generic programming capabilities.
>
> Also, howabout the use of {} in another context?
>
> Take this code:
>
> foo(34)
> {
> //do blah
> }
>
> Of course, here, we are not initializing the function. But what I propose
is
> that the code block is evaluated or run if foo(34) returns a true.
>
> Another example:
>
> while(i<100)
> {
> check_iagainstb(i) //if i == b, return 1
> {
> printf("i is er, equal to b");
> }
> }
>
>
>
>