On 8/10/2014 2:34 AM, "Marc Schütz" <[email protected]>" wrote:
It's possible to add this syntax for any statement,
The reason for the : syntax for declarations is that modules can be quite long,
and it:
1. avoids a lonely } that might be 3000-10,000 lines of code away
2. avoids requiring indentation of 3000-10,000 lines of code that makes change
diff's harder
On the other hand, functions tend to be short, and so these are not issues for
statements. Furthermore, : has other meanings in statements, such as:
1. labels
2. case statements
3. default statements
4. ?: expressions
and overloading this with more meanings is, in my not-so-humble-opinion, not a
good idea given the very marginal benefit it might have.
