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[Walter Bright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> The one major downside to this change in the grammar, however, is that it 
> makes lexical analysis dependent upon syntactic analysis, since the 
> significance of newlines depends upon the current construct being parsed.  D 
> prides itself on having no such interdependencies, and you'd be hard-pressed 
> to convince Walter to do otherwise. 

It's not pride based. There are sound technical reasons.