Interesting user mistake

[Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 23:08:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 09/04/2015 12:39 PM, skoppe wrote:
>> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 16:46:30 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32369114/leap-years-not-working-in-date-and-time-program-in-dlang
>>>
>>>
>>> The gist of it is the user wrote =+ instead of +=. I wonder 
>>> if we
>>> should disallow during tokenization the sequence "=", "+", 
>>> whitespace.
>>> Surely it's not a formatting anyone would aim for, but 
>>> instead a
>>> misspelling of +=.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Seems like a really, really small fish to catch. I wouldn't 
>> want to
>> litter my codebase with those kind of rules.
>
> I don't see what litter one would need you add to one's 
> codebase?
>
I was speaking from the perspective of whoever maintains/wrote 
the tokenizer.