consequences of removing semicolons in D like in Python
Chris via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 20 08:42:10 PDT 2016
On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 15:36:42 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 15:31:21 UTC, eugene wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 15:28:51 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> Anyway, why don't you grab the compiler and make a version
>>> that accepts line breaks and ";" - and see what happens?
>>
>> yes, i've written about it in the thread before
>
> Then try to compile Phobos and a variety of D projects on
> Github and publish the results. It'd be interesting to see what
> problems you encounter. Then you might write a tool like dfix
> that fixes the source code so that ";"-less code is parsed
> properly etc. But is it really worth it?
It'd be interesting, because it would finally provide data for
the ever-recurring question of whether to have semicolons or not.
¿How would you handle cases like
debug { writeln("Error"); return; }
of just
debug { writeln("Error"); }
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