Interesting user mistake

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/04/2015 12:39 PM, skoppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 16:46:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32369114/leap-years-not-working-in-date-and-time-program-in-dlang
>>
>>
>> The gist of it is the user wrote =+ instead of +=. I wonder if we
>> should disallow during tokenization the sequence "=", "+", whitespace.
>> Surely it's not a formatting anyone would aim for, but instead a
>> misspelling of +=.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Seems like a really, really small fish to catch. I wouldn't want to
> litter my codebase with those kind of rules.

I don't see what litter one would need you add to one's codebase?

> Besides, isn't stackoverflow about the answers and opinions, rather than
> about the questions?

That's not a criterion to judge any discussion that originates there.


Andrei