While we're lynching features, how bout' them omittable parens?

[Chad J]

Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> 
> "Chad J" <chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:gut0f2$jc0$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Nevermind properties.  Any chance we can forbid the omittable
>> parentheses, at least in the lhs of an assignment expression?
>>
>> In the more general case, any value type that gets modified but never
>> read or copied elsewhere is probably either dead code, a bug, or a
>> benchmark.  The latter is easy to fix by adding the necessary read/copy
>> (return the value, pass it to a global or function, etc).  It'd be great
>> if this kind of thing were a compile time error.
>>
>> Code like this shouldn't compile:
>>
>> struct S { int a = 0; }
>> S foo() { S s; return s; }
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>    foo.a++;
>> }
> 
> This is not because of the omittable parens. Even with added parens that
> code should not compile!
> 
> L.

Agreed!