Improve D's syntax to make it more python like

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 18:21 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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> I think some (including possibly myself) could enjoy a D dialect with 
> Python indentation quite a bit. Given D's compilation speed, that can be 
> achieved as a dialect without much aggravation by using a preprocessor.
> 
> In fact I considered writing such a preprocessor as a running example 
> through the chapters of TDPL, but didn't get around to it.

I am not convinced. CoffeeScript as a JavaScript dialect hasn't really
taken off, people just use JavaScript.

Interestingly a similar thought is on a thread in the Go community:
provide a nicer syntax to Go.

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