On 29 April 2012 18:50, Don <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

On 28.04.2012 20:47, Walter Bright wrote:

Andrei and I had a fun discussion last night about this question. The
idea was which features in D are redundant and/or do not add significant
value?

A couple already agreed upon ones are typedef and the cfloat, cdouble
and creal types.

What's your list?

* The >>> operator, which does nothing except introduce bugs (It does NOT perform an unsigned shift).

What does it do? I use this all over the place, I assumed it worked... maybe I have bugs?

* package. I have no idea how a failed Java experiment got incorporated into D.

package confuses me, it's poorly documented. What are the protections between packages, sub-packages. Can parent packages see sub-package contents? vice-versa?

* Most of the __traits are useless and redundant.

Which traits are useless and redundant? I'm actually finding the set is incomplete, and there are some missing (parameter list introspection, current scope/object identification, current module/package)