Hello D community.

I was browsing the __traits keywords and I found isFuture whose descriptions says something about @future-annotated variables.

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I didn't find anything about @future for the D programming language. I only found that this annotation is used in Apex to denote futures (a.k.a. promises) as programming concept.

Is this something which exists, existed, was abandoned early as an idea? I remember I had read that D uses a "fiber" library to provide coroutines and such.

Maybe somebody knows an answer for this.

On Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 20:53:34 UTC, Elmar wrote:

future means a name is reserved for future extension.
it's kind of the opposite of deprecated.

On Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 20:53:34 UTC, Elmar wrote:

It's just another "useless" attribute that the language has added before fixing any of the real problems :)

Basically it reserves a symbol for the future.

It's similar to creating ex. an empty function that throws an error or something like "Not implemented"

While I understand why it was added and what purpose it serves then I fail to see why that was prioritized over actual issues.

It's solving an almost non-existing issue.

On Friday, 17 September 2021 at 10:31:34 UTC, bauss wrote:

I think the main reason it was added is because Sociomantic asked for it, but they are of course not around anymore.

On Friday, 17 September 2021 at 14:37:29 UTC, Meta wrote:

Off topic: what happened to them, out of curiosity?

On Saturday, 18 September 2021 at 08:02:13 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:

IIRC they went out of business for inability to compete OR it was consumed by a another advertising company, there was a thread on a forum from Sonke about that event.

On 9/18/21 4:02 AM, Dylan Graham wrote:

Google changed the rules for add buys. Which either killed their business model, or made them far less competitive than they were originally.

-Steve

On 9/18/21 7:49 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

"ad buys" of course :P

-Steve