Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
D has ";" as the empty statement. In fact I think it's an empty
declaration because it can appear at top level.
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That's always been one of my peeves. At least, ever since I discovered
that preventing such common C typos as
if (...);
{
...
}
isn't implemented by disallowing ";" as a statement altogether, even
though at the time there was nothing in the spec to _allow_ it.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=327
Walter once claimed that it's useful for automatically generated code.
Though I'm still not quite sure how.
Stewart.
