Found on proggit: Krug, a new experimental programming language, compiler written in D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 06:29:46PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 04/26/2018 01:13 PM, arturg wrote:
> > 
> > why do people use this syntax?
> > 
> > if val == someVal
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > while val != someVal
> > 
> > it makes editing the code harder then if you use if(val == someVal).
> 
> The theory goes:
> 
> A. "less syntax => easier to read".
> B. "There's no technical need to require it, and everything that can
> be removed should be removed, thus it should be removed".
> 
> Personally, I find the lack of parens gives my brain's visual parser
> insufficient visual cues to work with, so I always find it harder to
> read.  And regarding "B", I just don't believe in "less is more" - at
> least not as an immutable, universal truth anyway. Sometimes it's
> true, sometimes it's not.

If "less is more" were universally true, we'd be programming in BF
instead of D.  :-O  (Since, after all, it's Turing-complete, which is
all anybody really needs. :-P)


T

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