post qualifier and template constraint limitation, is there a reason ?

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jan 19 02:49:50 PST 2015


On 1/18/2015 8:23 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> IMO style is the role of the formater. Prompting the programmer with "don't
> write this, write that instead" only crate reaction à la "If you know what I
> meant, why don't you compile that you asshole ?"

Redundancy is built in to the language design on purpose. If there was no 
redundancy, any random sequence of bytes would be a valid program.

It's why statements end in ; even though it is not strictly necessary.

For an example from another industry, it's why double-entry bookkeeping was 
invented. Errors are reduced by introducing redundancy.


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