Should the comma operator be removed in D2?

[Justin Johansson]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Justin Johansson" <no at spam.com> wrote in message 
> news:hdsi9d$ufg$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> 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)?
>>
> 
> Aside from the for loop (which could be special cased or just simply 
> rewritten), I've never used, or had reason to use, the comma operator in all 
> the programming I've ever done in D, C/C++ (which I used to use all the 
> time), or any other language. I strongly vote "ditch it". There are far 
> better potential uses for a comma anyway.
> 
> Speaking of C cruft, why the hell do we still have C's god-awful octal 
> syntax? Everyone but Walter's complained about it. And I don't want to hear 
> "to help port C code", because the whole reason I got started on D in the 
> first place was to get away from idiotic C designs. Besides, it's not like 
> "0([0-9]+)" is hard to grep for.

Hey, Nick.  Don't try and hijack *my* thread; go get your own 
<expletives deleted> thread.  Ha. :-)