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Re:Demystifying programs that create programs, part 1: A dis... by mathgladiator on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:59AM (#26776690)
What weeds in the language? I'm curious as I'm designing a language now, and my regrets are piling up around the complexity of the type system.
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Re:Demystifying programs that create programs, part 1: A dis... by WalterBright on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:19AM (#26777811)
The `lazy` storage class turns out to be unreasonably hard to reason about.

`alias this` in class objects turned out to make no sense. When people have problems with it, I just sigh and say stop using `alias this` in classes.

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