Should the comma operator be removed in D2?

[Justin Johansson]

Mentioned in the switch case statements thread, this probably should be 
a separate discussion thread.

Is the comma operator "another piece of C cruft" that needs to be 
removed from D(2)?


grauzone wrote:
 > Justin Johansson wrote:
 >> bearophile wrote:
 >>> What's bad about forcing people to write:
 >>> case A, B, C:
 >>>
 >>> Instead of:
 >>> case A:
 >>> case B:
 >>> case C:
 >>> ?
 >>>
 >>> Bye,
 >>> bearophile
 >>
 >> I don't know about "forcing people" to write such but perhaps it could
 >> be an "option for people" :-)
 >>
 >> Actually I quite like the brevity you propose but would it be a
 >> challenge for the comma operator?
 >>
 >> While ago, I got D multi-dimensional array syntax messed up and
 >> declared such an animal as
 >> int[3,4,5] which effectively ended up declaring the beast as int[5].
 >
 > The comma operator is another piece of C cruft that needs to go.
 >
 >> Cheers Justin