Stewart Gordon wrote:
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.
Yes. He's recently the claimed the same thing about the comma operator,
but I don't buy that argument. I've never needed to use either of them
myself. (In the case of comma, sure it works as a sequence point when
you have: a,b, return a; but it doesn't work for a,b, return b; which is
50% of the cases. I think it's a fallacious argument). Interestingly
CommaExpression doesn't seem to be defined anywhere in the D spec.
Stewart.
