Interesting user mistake

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/03/2015 01:15 PM, "Luís Marques  <luis at luismarques.eu> wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 17:12:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Is there a way for the lexer to check for the specific character
>> sequence '=', '+', whitespace and not others (e.g. '=', whitespace,
>> '+')?  IOW, "a =+ b" will be prohibited, but "a = + b" will be
>> allowed. If so, I agree with this.
>>
>> On that note, though, the unary + operator is totally useless in D...
>> maybe we should get rid of that instead?  (Then "=+" will
>> automatically be an error.)
>
> What about the generalization? E.g., '=', '-', whitespace?

Yah, '-' with the wrong spacing around it also makes sense. -- Andrei