On Friday, 28 September 2012 at 02:12:20 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
This is a very specific situation that could be handled unless
it is
too complex to mess with the lexer. If there's an if statement
which
isn't followed by a block but is followed by a blank line emit a
warning. Sounds simple enough to me.
By the time the compiler even has a concept of an 'if statement'
or a 'block' the whitespace is long gone. Not to say you
couldn't change the lexing model to detect such things,
but it's not a simple as you make it sound.
