for loop parens

ixid nuaccount at gmail.com
Fri Jul 12 18:19:04 PDT 2013


> As long as the syntax is
> not *too* ugly (*cough*C++ templates*cough*) isn't the 
> *semantics* more
> important? A pretty language that has limited expressiveness is 
> useless;
> a powerful language that's a bit ugly in syntax isn't any less 
> powerful
> because of it.
>
>
> T

What is the cost of expressiveness in these cases? I don't think 
expressiveness should be limited and often prettiness lends 
itself to expressiveness. People find D templates much easier to 
use than C++ ones and in part that's because they're much easier 
for humans to parse.


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