Is str ~ regex the root of all evil, or the leaf of all good?

[Ary Borenszweig]

bearophile wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley:
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> This is an old discussion, and maybe it will not lead to much.
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>> If you don't have a semicolon, you get a simple parser error. That is not a bug.<
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> Wikipedia agrees with me:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
>> A software bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended (e.g., producing an incorrect or unexpected result).<
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> So a parser error is a bug too, despite the compiler will help you find it in a moment.
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> I have written and debugged many times "mistakes" like:
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> foreach (a, b, iterable)
> foreach (a; b; iterable)
> foreach (a; b, iterable)
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> And probably I am not the only one :-)

Why would you do that?

Many times when writing C# loops I do foreach(x; ...) and then remember 
it's "in" in C#, because I'm used to writing ";" in Java. I prefer ";" 
because it's shorter and you write a lot of foreach loops in a program.

Maybe we should vote and see how many people make the mistake of 
confusing comma and semicolon in this case.

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>> If you can't tell ; and , apart, get a better font.<
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> I have already modified a good font to tell apart . and ; better when I program D:
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> http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/ar/inconsolatag/inconsolata-g_font.zip
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> But having a language that is more bug-prone isn't good.
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>> That has little to nothing to do with it.  'in' in a foreach loop header is unambiguous to parse.<
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> You may have missed the discussion last time, when I think Walter has explained what I have told you the problem about the compilation stages.
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>> and changing it to 'in' does not really benefit anyone except you, since you're so goddamned attached to Python's syntax.<
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> Thank you, I attach myself to things I think are good and well designed.
> And Python isn't the only language that uses "in" with a "for-each" :-)
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>> Use Delight, ffs.<
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> I don't know what "ffs" means, and I'm on Windows again now :-)
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> 
>> Also, "I think I don't like X" is not proper English.  Say "I don't think I like X" or just "I don't like X" instead.<

To Jarrett: why isn't it proper English? It makes sense to me.