On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:53:27PM -0500, AJ wrote: > Well it's more than "less typing". The biggest boon is time to comprehend > (the mind can parse less symbols faster).
o rly i find dat xtremly ulikly it seems 2 me dat symbols r actually very useful in figuring out what ends where but hey the mind can parse less symbols faster b/c aj says so so he shouldnt have any problem reading this message at all am i rite And does EVERY itsybitsy thread have to be about D or D 2009 vs DDD 2020 Cant general language design issues be discussed here and be usefulinteresting I wasnt proposing changing D but rather trying to find the rationale for semicolons ie Would I have chosen that if I was creating a language No not at all lots of threads go off topic and they are a lot of fun but it is the default assumption that messages here are about d if you want to just talk general design u should prolly just let us know in the subject or the body of the message somewhere --------- If the point isn't plain obvious from the above, fewer symbols most certainly does NOT mean a language is necessarily easier to parse. Symbols give us a parsing anchor - periods in a sentence aren't strictly necessary - we could put one per line, or just figure out where they belong by parsing the context. But that's fairly obviously much harder than using periods to follow where you are. Semicolons are the same thing. -- Adam D. Ruppe http://arsdnet.net