• Ali Cehreli <acehreli yahoo.com> Oct 22 2009
• "AJ" <aj nospam.net> Oct 22 2009
• Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> Oct 22 2009

Ali Cehreli <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

AJ Wrote:

 Why not eliminate the requirement for semicolon statement terminators 
 (unless there are multiple statements per line)? Less typing is "more"! 


A number of times in this thread, you claimed that you were not proposing
anything but merely asking "Why?".

You may have very well intended that, but your two statements above form a
proposal. At least for the English speaking people in Silicon Valley, they
do... When followed by that incomplete phrase, it forms a proposal.

Considering almost infinite "why not" proposals one might bring, yours is as
silly as any other.

Also, I will not guess what you mean with "more" of less typing. I know that
removing semicolons would have "more typing" of the backspace key for people
coming from any language that currently requires semicolon.

Ali

"AJ" <aj nospam.net> writes:

"Ali Cehreli" <acehreli yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:hbqcvd$1ku4$1 digitalmars.com...
 AJ Wrote:

 Why not eliminate the requirement for semicolon statement terminators
 (unless there are multiple statements per line)? Less typing is "more"!


 A number of times in this thread, you claimed that you were not proposing 
 anything but merely asking "Why?".

 You may have very well intended that, but your two statements above form a 
 proposal. At least for the English speaking people in Silicon Valley, they 
 do... When followed by that incomplete phrase, it forms a proposal.

 Considering almost infinite "why not" proposals one might bring, yours is 
 as silly as any other.

 Also, I will not guess what you mean with "more" of less typing. I know 
 that removing semicolons would have "more typing" of the backspace key for 
 people coming from any language that currently requires semicolon.

 Ali


Read what I mean, not what I say. 

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

Ali Cehreli wrote:
 Considering almost infinite "why not" proposals


I also suggest that "why not" is the wrong way to set up a proposal. A 
proposal should come with "why" do it.

Furthermore, any proposal that breaks existing code needs to have a very 
high level of advantages to justify it.