Archetype language

[spir]

On 03/20/2011 11:56 PM, KennyTM~ wrote:
> On Mar 21, 11 05:21, spir wrote:
>> On 03/20/2011 09:44 PM, bearophile wrote:
>>>> They should also let down ';' noise, like Go.
>>> My experience so far has shown me that there are two options:
>>> 1) You design the whole language syntax on the fact that most times
>>> you don't use semicolons (see Python and Haskell. Or even Delight);
>>> 2) You keep the semicolons obligatory (see D).
>>>
>>> Most of the other options I've seen (JavaScript, Go) are train wrecks :-)
>>
>> You'd have to support such as assertion with some material, I guess ;-)
>> Lua also lives very well without ';' (except, like Python & Go, for
>> multi-statement lines).
>
> Python is designed to use \n as the separator. I believe Lua too. D is not.
>
>> And I don't see what your point 1) actually means. Ones just need to let
>> down ';', e basta. There is no syntactic issue with treating newline as
>> a statement separator or terminator in place of ';'.
>>
>> Denis
>
> No, you may break existing code by replacing all \n with ;
>
> auto g = longExpression
> .readln();

Indeed, I don't mean you can replace ';' by newline in D without breaking code!

Denis
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