On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 17:12:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Is there a way for the lexer to check for the specific character sequence '=', '+', whitespace and not others (e.g. '=', whitespace, '+')? IOW, "a =+ b" will be prohibited, but "a = + b" will be allowed. If so, I agree with this.

On that note, though, the unary + operator is totally useless in D... maybe we should get rid of that instead? (Then "=+" will automatically be an error.)


T

Worse than useless; it doesn't even behave as you would expect.

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
        auto a = -1;
        writeln(+a); //Prints -1
        writeln(-a); //Prints  1
}

At least unary - does something.

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