On 7/12/13 1:46 PM, ixid wrote:
They are not issues in Go, but Walter is strongly against optional semicolons,
as bearophile said.
Me and others (like you) like optional semicolons, but since Walter doesn't and
it's his language,
that will not change.
I personally understand much better the code without semicolons, like in Ruby
and Python. And
making a parser that way isn't that much difficult, and error recovery is as
powerful.
Yes, I don't expect anyone to change their opinion though frankly the
anti-groups opinions feel more
like attachment to the status quo than something that's evidently and
demonstrably superior.
It seems a pity that D is achieving such power and elegance in some areas while
failing to take on
some of the syntactic beauty that is within reach. The ultimate language would
look something like D
crossed with Go in my eyes. It would be interesting if someone were able to
make a D subset that
showed what it could look like. There is significant value to being easy to
read and write, making
the language naturally more appealing for users just as speed makes
applications much more
attractive to users.
One person's beauty is another person's ugly. This is an area that reasonable people are going to
disagree on. You're feeling on their reasons is rather dismissive.
