Improving Compiler Error Messages

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:hrncpk$14t2$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> Michel Fortin wrote:
>>> That's an argument against returning the value of the last statement. 
>>> It's not an argument about making the last semicolon optional, is it?
>> Yes, it is an argument against it. It means the semantics can vary 
>> dramatically depending on whether a ; is present or not.
> 
> But that's only true when the language, unlike D, has implicit returns, 
> right? 


Right. But D (and C, C++) do not have implicit returns, and so this syntax is 
not right for them.