On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 19:25:25 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
1) Consistency with functions without contracts.
This only applies to the "naked" version which has ugly }{ in
it. The other options people are asking about are replacing
body with a keyword, which I think you agree would be bad for
consistency?
I don't understand why this would be uglier than )( used in
templates. Since imo it is one of the highlights of D to have
"discovered" that one didn't need the super-ugly <> template pars
of other languages, as the relative position in the code made it
absolutely unambiguous which is which.
The same is true for function bodies. It is completely
unambiguous where it starts and ends. As for }{, it would be rare
anyway, as it would generally be written vertically
out {
assert(whatever);
}
{
...
}
or even
out { assert(whatever);}
{
...
}
