On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 18:21 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: […] > I think some (including possibly myself) could enjoy a D dialect with > Python indentation quite a bit. Given D's compilation speed, that can be > achieved as a dialect without much aggravation by using a preprocessor. > > In fact I considered writing such a preprocessor as a running example > through the chapters of TDPL, but didn't get around to it.
I am not convinced. CoffeeScript as a JavaScript dialect hasn't really taken off, people just use JavaScript. Interestingly a similar thought is on a thread in the Go community: provide a nicer syntax to Go. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
