On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > Jérôme M. Berger wrote: >> >> Of course, using a decent editor will prevent it: if the editor is >> able to handle indentation correctly, it will indent the writeln in >> the same column as the for which makes the problem appear immediately. > > I think it is a serious mistake to design a language that requires a > syntax-aware editor. >
Computer languages exist to make life easier for their human users. So I keep thinking that rather than limit the language's options in terms of grammar, it would be better to just provide an easy-to-use parsing library for the language that makes adding editor support simple. What would be the problem with that? --bb