Passing Structs to function like in C

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On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 17:53:12 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 08/12/2016 07:33 PM, Cauterite wrote:
>> Why would I not terminate a declaration with a semi-colon?
>> Why should a declaration not end in a semi-colon just because 
>> the last
>> token is a brace?
>> Why should I not tell the lexer precisely where my declaration 
>> ends
>> instead of relying on whatever other tokens floating around it 
>> not
>> interfering?
>
> The semicolon is just noise. You're not helping the lexer at 
> all. It goes by the braces, and doesn't see the semicolon as 
> belonging to the function declaration. The semicolon creates 
> another, empty declaration.

Then it should error if it doesn't accept ';'. If it accepts it 
then it is legal. Your post is noise since it also is relatively 
meaningless and just takes up space. Why is it no ok for him to 
add a noisy ';' but it is ok for you to add noise to noise by 
adding a noisy post?

> This is accepted as well, and means the same:
>
> ----
> ;;;
> void main() {}
> ;;;
> ----
>
>> Why must every thread in this forum contain more posts 
>> regarding some
>> irrelevant tangent than posts responding to the original topic?
>
> This is a common mistake - more for structs, though, because of 
> C syntax. So I point it out so that you can learn that there's 
> no point to it in D, and so that others don't get the 
> impression that it's the proper syntax.


It is not a mistake... only in your mind. If it was a mistake D 
wouldn't allow it. Somewhere you picked up the mistake that 
adding a semicolon to the end of a struct is a mistake. Maybe you 
should unlearn that mistake?

There is no point in a lot of things, but pretending that life 
depends on such trivial things is a much worse mistake, IMO.