DMD 0.148 - scope guard

[Walter Bright]

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown at simplemachines.org> wrote in message 
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> Honestly, as ugly as the syntax is, I must admit I like the grouping of 
> the start and end conditions together.
>
> That's one thing I've always thought strange about programming; people 
> talk about functions and classes and all the different aesthetic and 
> linear/non-linear relationships between them, but in the end it is all 
> completely and totally linear, when for many cases that doesn't make 
> sense.

Consider the for loop:

    for (expr; expr; expr)

The 3rd expression is executed at the *end* of the loop, yet it is placed at 
the beginning. So there is precedent for the utility of putting code where 
it conceptually belongs rather than where it is executed.