std.stdio.writeln

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:18:58 -0700, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:

> On Monday, March 09, 2015 15:45:58 ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 14:48:19 +0000, John Colvin wrote:
>>
>> > Yet another excellent example of why we should abolish the comma
>> > operator in D.
>>
>> or at least warn about it. producing a warning for such expression will
>> ring a bell in programmers head: "compiler is unhappy. i definitely
>> doing something wrong here!"
> 
> There's not much point in that. If someone is using the comma operator
> correctly, then the warnings would be incredibly annoying. And if we
> value avoiding comma operator-related bugs over letting folks take
> advantage of its usefulness enough to consider such a warning, we might
> as well just deprecate the comma operator and move towards removing it
> from the language.
> Either it's there and useful but error-prone, or it's gone. In between
> just annoys both groups.

i remember that deprecation was rejected. maybe this is false memory, 
though.

btw, there are legit uses of comma, in c-style `for`, for example. this 
should be left intact, i think (oh, can c-style `for` be deprecated too?!
).
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