Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

[Walter Bright]

On 1/15/2013 4:09 AM, bearophile wrote:
> One common indentation-related bug is caused by relying on the indentation to
> understand code, while the curly brace language compiler ignores what you were
> seeing and only sees the braces. I have seen many cases of delayed code
> understanding caused by that. Making the syntax more DRY (this means stating the
> logical indentation using only one communication channel) helps avoid those
> mistakes (and reduces the visual noise, further helping code readability).

This is the job of a syntax aware editor (and other source code formatting 
tools), not the language. In my not-so-humble opinion.

BTW, I'd like to see a source code formatter for D. Anyone want to step up?