On Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 11:27:12 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 06:24:29 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 06:18:53 UTC, user1234 wrote:
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 05:09:13 UTC, aedt wrote:
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 04:45:07 UTC, user1234 wrote:
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Same thing as the following"
return a && b;
I'm not saying to drop parens completely, I'm saying why is
it not optional. D seems to have no problem with x.to!string
or std.lines
I agree that this would be in adequation with certain stuff
of the D syntax, such as parens-less single template
parameter. Someone has to make a DIP for this
Maybe but this is a simple parser thing. For example after
reading the discussion here i have tested the idea in my toy
programming language
(https://github.com/BBasile/styx/commit/83c96d8a789aa82f9bed254ab342ffc4aed4fd88) and i believe that for D this would be as simple ( < 20 SLOC, w/o the tests).
otherwise we're good for one of this sterile NG discussion
leading to nothing, i.e intellectual mast... well guess the
word.
I'm tempted to try this in DMDFE. Change is simple enough so
that if it get rejected no much time is lost.
FYI this works fine, as expected it's just some small parser
changes.
I didn't touch to for and foreach for now. I think that
SwitchStatement is a candidate too.
https://github.com/BBasile/dmd/commit/5455a65c8fdee5a6d198782d1f168906b59e6d3d
However note that there's a nice thing with the phobos style
that won't be that nice anymore:
if (condition)
action();
----^
if condition)
action();
---^
----^
It's not nicely aligned anymore !
Wow nice, that was quick, would it be much more to make it so
that braces are required with if statements that do not start
with an open paren? Then you avoid the ambiguity I guess ... It'd
be awesome if D allowed it optionally though.
Not that I have a strong opinion here but I have found that being
able to omit the parens makes the code look A Lot cleaner. And
forcing braces I've also come to apprecaite with a bonus of
avoiding this bug:
if (a)
b;
c;
Though forcing braces in D may make phobos quite sparse since it
uses allman braces so we'll get 4 line if statements everywhere :p
Cheers,
- Ali
