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Re:The Vale Programming Language by skohan on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:54PM (#25166071)
When would you want to have an interface such that nothing about the return type of a function is known to the outside world? I'm genuinely asking; I just don't understand the utility of this concept.
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Re:The Vale Programming Language by mumblemumble on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:32PM (#25166432)
I don't think anyone's trying to argue about whether it's better or worse than the Rust concept. Just that it's subtly different.
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Re:The Vale Programming Language by skohan on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:10PM (#25166692)
I'm not interested in comparing it to the rust concept. I'm just curious why this is something people find valuable in D, and why another commenter would call it a feature D "would be ruined without"
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Re:The Vale Programming Language by bobthebuilders on Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:20AM (#25168323)
The commentor is just mistaken. The two do the exact same thing.
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Re:The Vale Programming Language by skohan on Saturday November 21, 2020 @07:34AM (#25169345)
That's fine, but I'm not interested in comparing them and I still don't understand what the benefit is
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