Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
The difference is that there is rarely more than one statement per line in D, whereas it is common in English to have sentence endings in the middle of a line.On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:33:44PM +0200, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:OTOH, nobody sane argues that we should add extra punctuation between words when there is already a space. So *your* logic fails comparison too...The difference is that a semicolon in D isn't analogous to a space at all. It is, however, directly analogous to a period in English; indeed, even to a semicolon. A period separates one statement from the next, just like D's semicolon. Spaces separate individual components of it - words in English, variable names in D.
Nobody said that you could do without any separation between statements, but when there already is a clear separation then adding an extra punctuation is just visual noise.
The next level up is the paragraph, which is analogous to the braced block in code.
Jerome
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