Python-like tabs instead of curley brackets?

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Charles Fox wrote:
> I've been following D for a few years now, and I'd like to suggest ditching
> the (now completely redundant) curley brackets from the C-like syntax and
> borrowing Python's use of tabs to replace them.   I see no reason to keep the
> curley brackets now we have nice editors that know about (and can display) tab
> characters.  The ideal programming language should have no redundancy, you
> shouldn't have to say anything twice, and at present we are still repearting
> ourselves with both curley brackets and indentation!  What do you think?

I think it would be a big mistake, and quite possibly enough to turn me away from D 
despite the years I have put into it as a user.  Doing this, we would sacrifice 
expressiveness, source portability, useful niche features such as anonymous scopes, and 
enter the world of ambiguous nesting levels.  Python and D are two different galaxies. 
Python is not a systems language (technically, its interprative, and doesn't provide any 
low-level functionality that I recall).  Scope-by-indentation is a good choice in that 
case, where the speed and blindness of parsing are paramount.  It would be a massacre for D.

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls