"Adam D. Ruppe" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:53:27PM -0500, AJ wrote: >> Well it's more than "less typing". The biggest boon is time to comprehend >> (the mind can parse less symbols faster). > > o rly i find dat xtremly ulikly it seems 2 me dat symbols r actually very > useful in figuring out what ends where but hey the mind can parse less > symbols faster b/c aj says so so he shouldnt have any problem reading this > message at all am i rite
That's silly. Source code is written mostly one statement per line rather than like text in a book. Shame on you. > > And does EVERY itsybitsy thread have to be about D or D 2009 vs DDD > 2020 Cant general language design issues be discussed here and be > usefulinteresting I wasnt proposing changing D but rather trying to find > the rationale for semicolons ie Would I have chosen that if I was > creating a language > > No not at all lots of threads go off topic and they are a lot of fun but > it is the default assumption that messages here are about d if you want > to just talk general design u should prolly just let us know in the > subject > or the body of the message somewhere Apparently it is NOT off-topic (someone else said: "hey, all you guys who don't want semicolons: find another language or create your own!"). While I wasn't proposing to change D, I wasn't NOT suggesting it, necessarily, for consideration in some version down the line (or what D could maybe morph into). > > > --------- > > If the point isn't plain obvious from the above, fewer symbols most > certainly > does NOT mean a language is necessarily easier to parse. Your "point" isn't, though. Your "point" is like an incorrectly suggested metaphor. > Symbols The OP was not about "symbols". It was specifically about semicolons as statement terminators on single-statement lines. > give us > a parsing anchor - periods in a sentence aren't strictly necessary - we > could > put one per line, or just figure out where they belong by parsing the > context. > But that's fairly obviously much harder than using periods to follow where > you are. > > Semicolons are the same thing. Well, if they were "the same thing", they wouldn't be something else, now would they?
