Apparently unsigned types really are necessary

[bcs]

On 01/22/2012 10:09 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/22/2012 4:40 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
>> Or is
>> this like spaces vs. tabs? 'Cause I'm also a tab user.
>
> I struggled with that for years. Not with my own code, the tabs worked
> fine. The trouble was when collaborating with other people, who insisted
> on using tab stop settings that were the evil spawn of satan. Hence,
> collaborated code was always a mess.
>
> Like newklear combat toe to toe with the roosskies, the only way to win
> is to not play.

The only way to win the whitespace war is to change the rules:

My I propose the following modifications to the D lexer:

'''
White space may consist of:
- A comment between any two tokens.
- A single space between tokens that, if adjoined would be a single token.

All other white space (including \n \r \t \v, etc.) is forbidden and a 
lexical error.
'''

With these additions, all valid D code will be so hard to read that 
nobody will ever attempt to read it without first running a re-formatter 
over it and once that is standard practice, everyone will see it in 
there own preferred style.