On 1/24/13 9:54 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:00:06 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 1/24/13 7:36 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
Also non-logical special case rules like this make the language harder
to learn, therefore harder to evangelize.
Definitely. But it shouldn't be forgotten that syntactic warts are
also a liability.
Andrei
I would argue that given how common they already are, cost of the wart
is far smaller than the benefit of not having the unique-to-D special
case that makes the language that much harder to learn.
Again, the question needs asking: is it a given that we need to allow
optional parentheses? Otherwise we'll keep on rehashing this over and
over again.
Andrei
