for loop parens

[Brad Roberts]

On 7/12/13 1:46 PM, ixid wrote:
>> They are not issues in Go, but Walter is strongly against optional semicolons, as bearophile said.
>> Me and others (like you) like optional semicolons, but since Walter doesn't and it's his language,
>> that will not change.
>>
>> I personally understand much better the code without semicolons, like in Ruby and Python. And
>> making a parser that way isn't that much difficult, and error recovery is as powerful.
>
> Yes, I don't expect anyone to change their opinion though frankly the anti-groups opinions feel more
> like attachment to the status quo than something that's evidently and demonstrably superior.
>
> It seems a pity that D is achieving such power and elegance in some areas while failing to take on
> some of the syntactic beauty that is within reach. The ultimate language would look something like D
> crossed with Go in my eyes. It would be interesting if someone were able to make a D subset that
> showed what it could look like. There is significant value to being easy to read and write, making
> the language naturally more appealing for users just as speed makes applications much more
> attractive to users.

One person's beauty is another person's ugly.  This is an area that reasonable people are going to 
disagree on.  You're feeling on their reasons is rather dismissive.