On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:47:03PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Friday, March 21, 2014 18:47:47 Pedro Larroy wrote: > > Hi > > > > As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it > > be welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant > > whitespace and without brackets more like python? > > *shudder* Python is more like the antithesis of good syntax IMHO. > Sure, you could have a language with D's capabilities where the syntax > had been adjusted to be more python-like, but I don't know what the > benefit would be. Regardless, it's not like we're going to change D's > syntax at this point. That would be king of breaking changes which > wasn't worth what it cost. > > I expect that the closest you would get would be some project which > essentially created its own language and simply converted it to D when > compiling. [...]
I'm disappointed about how many discussions revolve around superficial things such as syntax, while neglecting weightier matters such as semantics and expressiveness. T -- What doesn't kill me makes me stranger.
