Improving Compiler Error Messages

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-05-03 18:05:11 -0400, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> said:

> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> news:hrncpk$14t2$2 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Michel Fortin wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> Yes, it is an argument against it. It means the semantics can vary 
>>> dramatically depending on whether a ; is present or not.
>> 
>> But that's only true when the language, unlike D, has implicit returns, right?
> 
> Right. But D (and C, C++) do not have implicit returns, and so this 
> syntax is not right for them.

Ok, so to summarize, your opinion is:

1. omitting the last semicolon looks like an implicit return
2. implicit returns are too subtle, won't add to D
3. since D has no implicit returns, omitting the last semicolon is not accepted

I disagree about 1, and thus about 3 since it derives from 1. But 
that's probably just because of our different background, so I'll leave 
it at that.

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