• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Mar 28 2008

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Walter Bright:
 That is just a fixable wart, not a fundamental issue.


I agree. But those things are part of the "User Interface". So even if such
bugs are on the surface of the language, and they don't touch deep things, they
are the first things seen by all programmers (not just the newbies). It's like
having a good program with a bad & slow GUI: they slow down coding, make code
uglier, and generally decrease the pleasure in using the language, and
sometimes they increase the bug count. So I think fixing 10-15 things like that
one (in D 1.x too) is a good way to improve how all people see the language.

For example the missing of the == operator among AAs or static arrays looks
like a pair of those UI bugs/warts.

Bye,
bearophile