"Steven Schveighoffer" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:42:31 -0400, AJ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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). > > Your suggestion that you were not proposing to change the D language is > either supremely misleading,
Twas not intended to be. Perhaps just YOU feel it is? > or flat out lying. Believe me, I have better things to do than try to change someone else's programming language. I just want to know "the answer". > > The original post said "Why not eliminate the requirement for semicolon > statement terminators." If you didn't mean D, then what the hell are you > talking about? I could have almost equivalently said: "Why does D require semicolons as statement terminators on single-statement lines?". Obviously I'm thinking that the semicolon used as noted may very well be redundant. I just wanted "proof" one way or the other. > And why on the D newsgroup? D is promoted as "a better C++" and a "better" language along the lines of such "stylistics", and is (seemingly) under continuous development/rethinking (much more so than, say, C++). So what better group than the D ng?! > > This is a very very old argument. It's been argued about 5 times on this > newsgroup alone. I had no idea! How long ago? I'll go back and read the threads and with even more interest now. I assumed that the semicolon, used as noted, was just carry-over from C/C++ rather than a re-evaluated and adopted-by-D thing. > And one more time isn't going to change anyone's mind. Well I wasn't trying to change anything. I just want to know and decide for myself. > Find another topic. Maybe you shouldn't read threads you are not interested in? In that regard, find another thread. :P
