Should the comma operator be removed in D2?

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Ellery Newcomer
<ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> Yes, Yigal said basically that.  The question I have is what practical
>> difference does that make to the language?
>> Seems no different from defining the empty tuple to be void, then
>> renaming void to unit.
>>
>>
>> --bb
>
> If you have unit distinct from void, you could use it for what Andrei
> mentioned a while back. Something to do with determining a function will
> never return because it always throws, etc.

Hmm, well Yigal specifically said "instead of C-like void".   Not "in
addition to".

--bb