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D vs C++

Started by dmikesell Oct 14, 2003 at 1:51 PM 3 replies 650+ views

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Oct 14, 2003 at 1:51 PM

I didn''t want this to get buried in the other thread, but there''s a long discussion about this on the comp.lang.c++.moderated Usenet group involving Walter Bright, the founder and author of D: http://tinylink.com/?42k93ag7EY -- Dave Mikesell d.mikesell@computer.org http://davemikesell.com

Rayno

Oct 14, 2003 at 2:18 PM

Uh oh. Bring on the language flame war.

dmikesell

Oct 14, 2003 at 2:38 PM

I hope not. c.l.c.m is a moderated newsgroup and the discussion seems to be at a high level for the most part.

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davepermen

Oct 14, 2003 at 4:44 PM

hehe. thanks for the link. quite cool.

If that''s not the help you''re after then you''re going to have to explain the problem better than what you have. - joanusdmentia

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davepermen

Oct 14, 2003 at 5:49 PM

instead of depating about D against c++ i see merely big discussions about issues of c++ (copy constructor and all that, and why it isn''t the way people ment it to be and such blabla).

and teh most funny part is about the ~ as string concatenation.

first: people got it wrong
second: even if they got it wrong, does it mather? is it SO terrible to have ~ instead of + as in c++? no.

about the got it wrong. ~ is not a string concatenator, but a general dynamic array concatenator. such a generic operator doesn''t exist in c++ as there is no generic dynamic array type. there is in D, and the ~ for concatenating, or .. adding.. arrays together is great, as its clean and very readable.

anyways, a fun read for sure. and some good thoughts.

never new you could concatenate strings with such a ton of different operators:D

If that''s not the help you''re after then you''re going to have to explain the problem better than what you have. - joanusdmentia

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