for loop parens

[QAston]

On Friday, 12 July 2013 at 20:46:21 UTC, ixid wrote:
> 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.
I think that Python has syntax evidently and demonstrably 
superior to D. Why not Python?
>
> 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.

There won't be an ultimate language - ever. People haven't 
settled up even on tabs vs spaces or braces issues yet.

Please keep in mind that every change made to the langage has 
costs that have to be paid for the benefits. Sometimes costs are 
not worth paying for the potential benefits. Status quo has this 
wonderful feature - it has 0 cost, so the benefit/cost ratio 
approaches infinity :).

Also, i don't know what's wrong with parens - 2 additional 
keystrokes? I didn't see a for loop i a long time - ranges + 
foreach are everywhere. And foreach is 4 chars more to type than 
for :P.