Justwerk compiler flag

monkyyy crazymonkyyy at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 16:28:25 UTC 2025


On Thursday, 17 July 2025 at 13:53:24 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 July 2025 at 01:07:28 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> False; it can only make less code work. I understand that some 
>> have a religious belief that some working code is unholy.
>
> Then again, probably you agree there is *some* code you 
> wouldn't want to compile. If I write
>
> ```D
> SpamSpamSpam$% }}}123€([//
> øÅ  @rgmh**^||
> ```
>
> do you think that should compile to something? If not, there 
> you have it - there is code that shouldn't work.
>
> The question is, where are you drawing the line - when do 
> compiler checks go too far?

Failing to parse is different from not working because extra code 
decides its a bad idea; my line would be mostly ()'s matching and 
semicolons for *compiled* *c-like* languages; in a calculator 
every string should return a result.


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