accept @pure @nothrow @return attributes

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-01-28 23:27, 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.
>
> So consider:
>
>      void func()
>      safe T = 7;
>
> With your proposal, an error isn't discovered until the '=' is found.

A good language design that doesn't require the ; statement terminator 
would recognize "void func()" as a valid statement and implicit add ;. 
Scan the line, if a valid language construct has been seen at the end of 
the line, insert a ;, if not continue to the next line. That works in 
many languages.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg