accept @pure @nothrow @return attributes

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On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 22:44:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 22:28:08 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> For example, people often realize that the ; statement 
>> terminator is redundant, so they propose removing it. In 
>> trying it, however, it soon becomes clear that error message 
>> clarity, recovery, and the correct identification of the 
>> location of the error degrades substantially.
>
> That explains why new languages make ";" optional, or wait...
>
> Could it be that the language designers of new languages have 
> realized that using ";" for discrimination on line endings is 
> fragile and tedious. Could it be that new languages define 
> grammars that are more robust than the one used by C? Like Go?

Counter example: Rust. Of course, Rust isn't the epitome of 
readability.

>
> Or to put it succinctly: If legibility is dependent on a little 
> fly shit on the screen, then the language design sure isn't 
> optimal.