Is str ~ regex the root of all evil, or the leaf of all good?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> Jarrett Billingsley:
>>
>> This is an old discussion, and maybe it will not lead to much.
>>
>>
>>> If you don't have a semicolon, you get a simple parser error. That is 
>>> not a bug.<
>>
>> Wikipedia agrees with me:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
>>> A software bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a 
>>> computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended (e.g., 
>>> producing an incorrect or unexpected result).<
>>
>> So a parser error is a bug too, despite the compiler will help you 
>> find it in a moment.
>>
>> I have written and debugged many times "mistakes" like:
>>
>> foreach (a, b, iterable)
>> foreach (a; b; iterable)
>> foreach (a; b, iterable)
>>
>> And probably I am not the only one :-)
> 
> Why would you do that?
> 
> Many times when writing C# loops I do foreach(x; ...) and then remember 
> it's "in" in C#, because I'm used to writing ";" in Java. I prefer ";" 
> because it's shorter and you write a lot of foreach loops in a program.
> 
> Maybe we should vote and see how many people make the mistake of 
> confusing comma and semicolon in this case.

Not confusing me. I'll note that if "in" were used, you could write:

foreach (a in b in c) {}

Now try explaining that one :o).


Andrei