Just where has this language gone wrong?

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 14:51:59 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On another note, (copied from wikipedia)
>>
>> foreach(item; set) {
>> // do something to item
>> }
>>
>> what's with the lax syntax being allowed?
>
> s/lax/to the point/
>
>> Shouldn't it be at least specified "auto item"?
>>
>
> Why on earth would that be the case?
>
>> I'm sorry I don't mean to be a criticizer, but it seems to me 
>> that D is
>> trying to be a dynamic-like compiled language way too hard.
>
> It's just syntax. Eliminating syntax noise is fine. Code should 
> look
> like what it does.

Additionally, allowing to omit auto is actually consistent with 
the rest of the language, which also allows you to not explicitly 
write it if the code doesn't become ambiguous (for example, you 
don't need to do "immutable auto").

David