Minor feature request
Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 28 01:12:39 PDT 2016
On Tuesday, 28 June 2016 at 06:13:44 UTC, Superstar64 wrote:
> Right now, D functions expect a Block Statement
> (https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#FunctionBody) as their
> function body. Changing that to allow any statement
> (https://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#Statement) would provide
> a few new syntactic sugars like:
> ---
> auto func(MyObj obj) with(obj)
> {
> //...
> }
>
> auto func(int arg) return arg;
>
> auto func() try
> {
> //...
> }
> finally
> {
> return //...
> }
> ---
Incidentally, yesterday I stumbled upon a very long C++ function
whose body was a try/catch statement instead of a block
statement. It took me some time to figure out what was going on,
and, although I'm usually ok with these kind of language
"features", I have to say that this can really harm readability,
because flow control is no longer indented with respect to the
declaration.
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