My new favorite D feature

[Walter Bright]

Tim Keating wrote:
> At least for then next couple of hours, anyway:
> 
> 	int i = 100;
> 
> 	if (i = 2);
> 	{
> 		writefln("We shouldn't be here");
> 	}
> 
> Yields:
> 
> 	use '{ }' for an empty statement, not a ';'
> 
> Instead of blithely steping into that block. As just happened in my C++ 
> program, wasting 30 minutes of my life while I tried to figure out why 
> the heck that block kept getting executed.

That feature is in there, because way back in 1984 or so, a friend of 
mine (who is a top programmer) spent several hours with code that looked 
like:

	... statements ...
	for (i = 0; i < n; i++);
	{
		... statements ...
	}
	... statements ...

wondering why his loop executed exactly once.