The Comma Operator's Deprecation Can't Come Soon Enough

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 16:45:02 UTC, Jane Doe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 16:16:19 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 7/15/14, Frustrated via Digitalmars-d 
>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 08:01:40 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>> The 2nd "argument" to typeof makes no sense. It shouldn't be 
>>> on
>>> that line at all. Total fail by the programmer.
>>
>> Well yeah, real world programmers make mistakes.
>
> So, you wanna nerf everything that could produce the wrong 
> behavior? Should be reduce the speed limit to 5mph because cars 
> can kill people?
>
> There is nothing in this example that shows the comma operator 
> is evil. Any programming language as a plethora of similar 
> issues. Should we get rid of || && etc because one might forget 
> to double it?
>
> e.g., if (x | y) when one meant if (x || y)?
>
> It's not the languages fault if you can't pay attention to what 
> you are doing!
>
> The code looks like he copy and pasted the 2nd alias line and 
> forgot to remove the depth part. Again, this speaks nothing 
> about the comma operator but about the programmer.

The reason for getting rid of it is because it's borderline 
useless. It causes more accidental bugs than it enables 
deliberate uses.