Encapsulating trust

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 06:44:13 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> why don't add some sugar here? nothing will stop a dedicated 
> person if
> he wants to write "bad code". yet making life harder for thouse 
> who
> knows what they doing is... anti-human. this discriminating
> knowledgeable people, forcing them obey the rules that was 
> written for
> fools. yet that rules will not stop fools of doing foolish 
> things.
>
> lose-lose.

Because by adding dedicated syntax you save 2 (two!) symbols and 
gain nothing else. And get all the associated compiler 
maintenance costs which add up with each smallest feature. Not 
worth it.