dmd 1.057 and 2.041 release

[Alexander Suhoverhov]

Steven Schveighoffer  at "Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:23:51 -0500" wrote:
 SS> On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:12:24 -0500, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
 >> Steven Schveighoffer:
 >>> Tell me how you would parse the following text serialization string for a
 >>> string[]:
 >>>
 >>> hello world how are you
 >>>
 >>> What if it was a string[][]?
 >>>
 >>> Compare that to:
 >>>
 >>> [hello world, [how are, you]]
 >>
 >> You are missing something:
 >>
 >> ["hello world", ["how are", "you"]]
 SS> For completely unambiguous, yes.  But still, I find often that quotes are more noise than
 SS> they are worth when just doing simple printouts.  What we  want is the most useful
 SS> default.

Commas are even more noise than than quotes. erlang:

[{app, "app1"}, {user, "user1"}, {score, 123456}, {date, 5000000}, {misc, "foo"}]

But if you just drop commas:

[{app "app1"} {user "user1"} {score 123456} {date 5000000} {misc "foo"}]

 SS> -Steve


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