Python-like tabs instead of curley brackets?
Mike Parker
aldacron71 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 27 09:05:14 PDT 2006
Charles Fox wrote:
> I've been following D for a few years now, and I'd like to suggest ditching
> the (now completely redundant) curley brackets from the C-like syntax and
> borrowing Python's use of tabs to replace them. I see no reason to keep the
> curley brackets now we have nice editors that know about (and can display) tab
> characters. The ideal programming language should have no redundancy, you
> shouldn't have to say anything twice, and at present we are still repearting
> ourselves with both curley brackets and indentation! What do you think?
Yuck. That's one of the things that turns me off about Python. I would
hate to see that in D.
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