Ary Borenszweig wrote:
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.
Not confusing me. I'll note that if "in" were used, you could write:
foreach (a in b in c) {}
Now try explaining that one :o).
Andrei
