On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 10:41:05PM +0200, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 9/3/15, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d > <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32369114/leap-years-not-working-in-date-and-time-program-in-dlang > > > > The gist of it is the user wrote =+ instead of +=. I wonder if we > > should disallow during tokenization the sequence "=", "+", > > whitespace. Surely it's not a formatting anyone would aim for, but > > instead a misspelling of +=. > > The gist of it is that it's interesting because it's such a rare > occurrence. That's why we probably shouldn't even think about it. I've > never seen such mistakes in OSS code before, and I've never seen it in > production code either. It's so rare that we shouldn't spend any time > thinking about it. > > Sure it's interesting, but why bother with this special case when > there's bigger fish to fry?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality :-) T -- "I'm not childish; I'm just in touch with the child within!" - RL
