Improving Compiler Error Messages

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-05-03 16:07:34 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

>>> foo((int i) { writeln(i) });
>> 
>> Yea, that's a case of optional-semicolon that even I'd like to have 
>> (And I've suggested it before).
> 
> Actually that doesn't work as well as one might expect. In the Cecil 
> language, the return type of a function would depend on whether it 
> ended with a semicolon (void if present, something else if absent). Not 
> very robust.

That's an argument against returning the value of the last statement. 
It's not an argument about making the last semicolon optional, is it?

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