Re: [Vala] Some thoughts aloud about improving syntax in Vala.

2019-08-14 Thread rastersoft
Hi: I read your comments, and my opinions are: - no semicolons, almost all modern languages got rid of them (Or make them optional as in js so as not to break backward compatibility) I disagree. In JavaScript there are some cases where they are mandatory in order to avoid ambiguities. Forcin

Re: [Vala] Some thoughts aloud about improving syntax in Vala.

2019-08-14 Thread Mark Messer via vala-list
- no semicolons - fully agree. They are meant to act as a delimiter when a code is composed in-line. In such cases they should be obligatory. But not in others; - syntax (1..6) - good idea, however I'd even expand it. I remember your experiments with quasi-parallel operations in loops. They look mo