language_fan wrote:
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:29:37 -0400, bearophile thusly wrote:
Why not eliminate the requirement for semicolon statement terminators
(unless there are multiple statements per line)?<
Probably mostly because both some part of D language, some part of the
mind of D developers, and some of the D programmers are "old school" and
like to do things as they were in the past. I can list you twenty
examples of this. Breaking old habits is not easy.
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Adam D. Ruppe:
It looks wrong,
To me semicolons everywhere look wrong, even if I've programmed enough
with languages that require a semicolon at the ends.
breaks habit,
It breaks a negative habit.
opens up bizarre parsing corner cases, and makes error messages uglier.
I have yet to see a proof of this.
Next thing you know someone will propose eliminating braces and just
using whitespace to denote blocks. It's utter madness.
Even "worse", someone may even implement such alternative D syntax, and
the sky will fall on your head: http://delight.sourceforge.net/
Relax, bearophile. It seems there are some things you cannot change in
this world. It will not suffice that you prove them wrong. I think I'll
just give up on D. The development model is too stagnant. The author
It was always so slow. D is how old? 10 years now?
refuses to learn from "new" languages like Python or C#, or old languages
(SML) unless someone is kind enough to spend whole day explaining the
features to him. That's a sick basis for developing new languages. Large
part of the community shares this mindset. The more I think about it, the
more I realize this language is not for me. I apologize my arrogance. Bye.
What language is "for you"?
