Property discussion wrap-up

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 06:09:35 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 19:37:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
> wrote:
>> On 2013-01-28 14:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> I agree optional parens take getting used to.
>>
>> I think it was easy to get used to. Now it's instead harder to 
>> use other languages which doesn't allow optional parentheses.
>
> I can imagine there is an advantage in expressiveness,but OTOH 
> wouldn't it make parsers based tooling more difficult to build 
> ? One of the great advantages of a static language is having 
> powerful tooling, something that doesn't exist in most dynamic 
> languages.

This surely makes it harder.