for loop parens

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On Saturday, 13 July 2013 at 01:06:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 05:51:21PM -0700, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> On 7/12/13 1:46 PM, ixid wrote:
> [...]
>> >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.
>
> I find this fixation on syntax rather strange. 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.
>

Of course, .net demonstrates this very well... but do you really 
expect most people to really be able to think that abstractly? 
Syntax is meaningless but necessary... see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge.