Apparently unsigned types really are necessary

[Nick Sabalausky]

"bcs" <bcs at example.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.

Hah! I like it :)