for in D versus C and C++

[Denis Koroskin]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:58:48 +0300, Alexander Pánek <alexander.panek at brainsware.org> wrote:

> Steve Teale wrote:
>> Don Wrote:
>>
>>> Steve Teale wrote:
>>>> for (; a<b; a++);
>>>>
>>>> is illegal in D.
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't this break a lot of C and C++ code?
>>> It breaks a lot of broken C and C++ code.
>>  OK, that's possibly the case, but you know that among C programmers in  
>> particular there was an absolute prohibition on typing more characters  
>> than necessary.
>
> It’s just one character more in D. Really just the closing curly bracket  
> that adds up.
>
> for(;;); vs. for(;;){}

In D, you can for(;){} :p