• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Dec 15 2010

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

(Catching some older posts I have lost in my absence)

Andrei Alexandrescu:

 * in is a vestige now used for const, and a syntactic component of contracts


It's a (nearly) duplicated way to do something, so it may be removed.


 * lazy sucks


I don't remember why.


 We stand to lose the ability to express designs clearly and in good 
 detail whichever of the above we eliminate. What do we take away?


I don't mind having many words to specify my desired semantics to the compiler,
so I don't mind twenty attributes. But their purpose and semantics must be
clean, each one of them must do just one clear thing and to it well.

But I agree that "auto ref" is a bit confusing, I prefer a single keyword, like
autoref or auto_ref, or  autoref, or some other single word.

Bye,
bearophile