"J C Calvarese" <jcc7@cox.net>
| antiAlias wrote:
| > Uhhh; excuse me? Dave said that, Helmut ~ not I
| >
| > :-)
|
| I'm sure it was an accident. ;)
|
| You might be able to adjust your newsreader settings so that the
| "quote-markers" are added to each line when you reply (like it does for
| pretty much everyone else). When the extra ">" symbols are missing,
| quoting the quoter can be especially misleading.

Thanks!

Matthias Becker wrote:

> Mixins are just like C-Macros with nicer synthax and less abilities.

Then you haven't understood mixins. Using them like C-Macros is just one of several applications. A number of novel ideas to use them have already appeared on this list. Many more will probably be found in the future.

It is true that there are things that C-macros can do which cannot be done in D. Anyhow: most of these deal with changing the syntax of the language, and I seriously doubt that it is necessary to have that capability in the language.

One of the greatest dangers of D is that it looks so similar to C/C++, that you want to stick with the old way of thinking. Instinctively, you try to use the same kind of crutches that you got used to use in C/C++ instead of just starting to walk freely...

"Norbert Nemec" <Norbert@Nemec-online.de> wrote in message news:chrjic$14kl$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> One of the greatest dangers of D is that it looks so similar to C/C++,
that
> you want to stick with the old way of thinking. Instinctively, you try to use the same kind of crutches that you got used to use in C/C++ instead of just starting to walk freely...

My first large C program looked just like FORTRAN <g>. (guess I'm showing my
age)