The empty statement ";" - when is it useful?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:29:51AM -0400, Arthur Lloyd wrote:
> Also
> 
> #  struct coordinates { int x; int y; }
> #  coordinates getThem() { coordinates c; c.x = 4; c.y = 5; return c; }
> #  auto a = getThem();
> 
> seems very verbose when in a scripting language I can do:

It also seems very verbose in D where you can do:

auto getThem() { return tuple(4,5); }
auto a = getThem;

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