On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 20:00:39 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 14:11:34 UTC, cym13 wrote:
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It's not arbitrary. It keeps the language simple and easy to
read. After all the entire auto keyword is just there, because
the compiler needs a keyword and in loops it's clearly defined
what the type will be.
You don't complain that `int int` is forbidden, or do you?
I guess you are frustrated because you are used to this pattern
from other, inferior languages. I bet you will soon start to
appreciate the syntactic sugar that D provides.
However I agree that the error message should be more
informative. Please open a issue for this ;-)
