On 2010-05-01 21:31, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
Ary Borenszweig wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/05/improving_compi.html
The next dmd update is getting the fruits of this.
So cool!
About the semicolon redundancy: it has been discussed a lot of times
in this newsgroup, but I started programming in ruby some time ago and
I can tell you I prefer to not type thousands of those redundant
semicolons to once in a while spend 5 or 10 seconds to understand that
the error the interpreter is talking about is about a
misinterpretation of what I wrote. Note that this "once in a while"
might have happened two or three times in about seven months of work.
I prefer not to type those many semicolons and parenthesis. :-)
And
3. scan till a ; is found
can be replaced with
3. scan (in a smart way) till a line end is found
Yeah, I kind of thought that myself. It works especially well in
languages without implicit line continuation (BASIC derivatives, mostly,
and probably some others I'm not thinking of right now). Obviously, D
does have implicit line continuation, which causes potential ambiguity,
but I think it can still work fairly well.
Anyone done experiments on the effectiveness of this approach in
C-family languages?
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