Improve D's syntax to make it more python like

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:47:03PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, March 21, 2014 18:47:47 Pedro Larroy wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it
> > be welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant
> > whitespace and without brackets more like python?
> 
> *shudder* Python is more like the antithesis of good syntax IMHO.
> Sure, you could have a language with D's capabilities where the syntax
> had been adjusted to be more python-like, but I don't know what the
> benefit would be.  Regardless, it's not like we're going to change D's
> syntax at this point. That would be king of breaking changes which
> wasn't worth what it cost.
> 
> I expect that the closest you would get would be some project which
> essentially created its own language and simply converted it to D when
> compiling.
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I'm disappointed about how many discussions revolve around superficial
things such as syntax, while neglecting weightier matters such as
semantics and expressiveness.


T

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