consequences of removing semicolons in D like in Python
eugene via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Sep 17 06:18:24 PDT 2016
On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 13:11:50 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> On 09/16/2016 07:00 PM, eugene wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> what if to remove semicolons at the end of each line of code
>> in D like
>> in Python?
>> Is it worth it?
>
> Not worth it. Gripes about semicolons are a symptom of only
> seeing the superficial and not really understanding enough
> about languages to see what really is and isn't important. It's
> like dumping someone because you don't like the color of a
> dress they wore. Superficial, shallow, inconsequential bikeshed
> bullcrap, not even worth debating.
why?
groovy, for e.g., is ok without semicolons and with semicolons.
if there is a question of backward compatibility, is it possible
to support semicolons?
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