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[Timon Gehr]

On 11/12/2011 09:41 PM, Jude Young wrote:
> On Sat 12 Nov 2011 02:19:21 PM CST, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>> On 11/11/2011 05:58 PM, Jude Young wrote:
>>>
>>> I came very close to assuming D was dead and going off to look at
>>> another language. (I was considering Go, But I hate the forced {}
>>> syntax)
>>
>> It's funny, the trivial reasons that people will come up with to
>> choose a programming language.
>>
>
> Please, I'm sure there's worse.
> My real problem with it is that there doesn't seem to be any logical
> reason for it.

The reason is that Go does not require the ()

if i<j {
     // do stuff
}

Also

if(i<j) do_stuff();

is the same number of key strokes as

if i<j {do_stuff();}

and if you want to do other stuff, the first has to be changed to

if(i<j){do_stuff(); do_other_stuff();}

and the second to

if i<j {do_stuff(); do_other_stuff() }

Which means the second requires less changes. (unless you abuse the 
comma operator.)