consequences of removing semicolons in D like in Python

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 20 08:36:42 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 15:31:21 UTC, eugene wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 15:28:51 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Anyway, why don't you grab the compiler and make a version 
>> that accepts line breaks and ";" - and see what happens?
>
> yes, i've written about it in the thread before

Then try to compile Phobos and a variety of D projects on Github 
and publish the results. It'd be interesting to see what problems 
you encounter. Then you might write a tool like dfix that fixes 
the source code so that ";"-less code is parsed properly etc. But 
is it really worth it?


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