Improve D's syntax to make it more python like

[Brian Rogoff]

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 16:28:11 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> When F# was still in beta, it had OCaml syntax as default with 
> a significant whitespace mode that could be turned on with a 
> compiler directive "#light on".
>
> While asking the embryonic F# community which mode should be 
> the default.
>
> The significant whitespace mode won and became the default, 
> with the
> OCaml mode being the optional one.

That's not too hard to believe. I like OCaml a lot but its syntax 
is not its best feature. The OCaml preprocessor (CamlP4) had an 
improved syntax called Revised as one of its applications. As I 
recall, Gerard Huet (who publicized 'the zipper') used a subset 
of Revised he called Pidgin ML in his publications. They looked a 
lot nicer than regular OCaml.

I've never written any F#, since I live in the world of Unix, and 
never visit Windows. It looks like it has some interesting 
improvements over OCaml (let!, async stuff, LINQ, some 
overloading, ...) but has a weak module system compared to OCaml.