Archetype language

[KennyTM~]

On Mar 21, 11 05:21, spir wrote:
> On 03/20/2011 09:44 PM, bearophile wrote:
>>> They should also let down ';' noise, like Go.
>> My experience so far has shown me that there are two options:
>> 1) You design the whole language syntax on the fact that most times
>> you don't use semicolons (see Python and Haskell. Or even Delight);
>> 2) You keep the semicolons obligatory (see D).
>>
>> Most of the other options I've seen (JavaScript, Go) are train wrecks :-)
>
> You'd have to support such as assertion with some material, I guess ;-)
> Lua also lives very well without ';' (except, like Python & Go, for
> multi-statement lines).

Python is designed to use \n as the separator. I believe Lua too. D is not.

> And I don't see what your point 1) actually means. Ones just need to let
> down ';', e basta. There is no syntactic issue with treating newline as
> a statement separator or terminator in place of ';'.
>
> Denis

No, you may break existing code by replacing all \n with ;

auto g = longExpression
          .readln();

// auto g = longExpression.readln(); ?
// auto g = longExpression; .readln(); ?

if (b)
   return a
    (c.methodPtr)(d);

// if (b) return a; (c.methodPtr)(d); ?
// if (b) return a(c.methodPtr)(d); ?