Improving Compiler Error Messages

[Nick Sabalausky]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky:
>
>>AI do a lot of line-juggling, so I've always found explicit line 
>>continuation operators to be a royal pain in the ass.<
>
> I have written a large amount of Python code, and I use a line 
> continuation symbol probably every 50000 chars of code&comments, so for me 
> it's not a pain.
> From what I've seen in the Python newsgroups, this is not among the top 
> fifteen Python complains :-)
>

That's only natural. People who don't like it are less likely to use Python 
and hang around the Python NGs. Just like how there's very few people around 
here that have any problem with curly braces, since people who have a strong 
prefernce for, say, BASIC/Pascal-style "begin/end" blocks are unlikely to 
care enough about D to hang around here.