"Adam D. Ruppe" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:42:31PM -0500, AJ wrote: > The OP was not about "symbols" > It was specifically about semicolons as statement terminators on \ > single-statement lines > Your defending argument was > Well its more than less typing > The biggest boon is time to comprehend the mind can \ > parse less symbols faster > That argument just doesnt hold water > > Well, if they were "the same thing", they wouldn't be something else \ > , now would they? > The point is that symbols serve as both a visual anchor and \ > a parsing anchor for the compiler > You can quickly scan longer statements for a semicolon ( \ > or a period in prose) to see where it ends > Periods and semicolons might be different symbols, but \ > they serve exactly the same purpose > Whitespace simply doesn't do a very good job >
That's not D source code. Why do you keep trying to use English text as an example? If you're trying to make a case for the use of semicolons as statement terminators on single-statement lines, you're actually destroying your own case! That you say "whitespace" instead of "newline" hurts your argument also.
