bearophile wrote:
Jarrett Billingsley:
This is an old discussion, and maybe it will not lead to much.
If you don't have a semicolon, you get a simple parser error. That is not a
bug.<
Wikipedia agrees with me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
A software bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program
that prevents it from behaving as intended (e.g., producing an incorrect or
unexpected result).<
So a parser error is a bug too, despite the compiler will help you find it in a
moment.
I have written and debugged many times "mistakes" like:
foreach (a, b, iterable)
foreach (a; b; iterable)
foreach (a; b, iterable)
And probably I am not the only one :-)
Why would you do that?
Many times when writing C# loops I do foreach(x; ...) and then remember
it's "in" in C#, because I'm used to writing ";" in Java. I prefer ";"
because it's shorter and you write a lot of foreach loops in a program.
Maybe we should vote and see how many people make the mistake of
confusing comma and semicolon in this case.
If you can't tell ; and , apart, get a better font.<
I have already modified a good font to tell apart . and ; better when I program
D:
http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/ar/inconsolatag/inconsolata-g_font.zip
But having a language that is more bug-prone isn't good.
That has little to nothing to do with it. 'in' in a foreach loop header is
unambiguous to parse.<
You may have missed the discussion last time, when I think Walter has explained
what I have told you the problem about the compilation stages.
and changing it to 'in' does not really benefit anyone except you, since you're so
goddamned attached to Python's syntax.<
Thank you, I attach myself to things I think are good and well designed.
And Python isn't the only language that uses "in" with a "for-each" :-)
Use Delight, ffs.<
I don't know what "ffs" means, and I'm on Windows again now :-)
Also, "I think I don't like X" is not proper English. Say "I don't think I like X" or just
"I don't like X" instead.<
To Jarrett: why isn't it proper English? It makes sense to me.
