I figured some people here might know.  Honestly, this has always been a question of mine...

Why do most (all but D?) languages force you to use curlies for try/catch?  Is it because they are enforcing style?  Encouraging you to not use them for simple one-offs?

I really like how D works.  I wish all languages were like it in this (and many other) respect(s).

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"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown@simplemachines.org> wrote in message news:fvfq25$2br9$1@digitalmars.com...
>I figured some people here might know.  Honestly, this has always been a question of mine...
>
> Why do most (all but D?) languages force you to use curlies for try/catch? Is it because they are enforcing style?  Encouraging you to not use them for simple one-offs?

I don't know.  It's especially irritating in languages (*COUGH*JAVA*COUGH*) that really like you to use exceptions for things that should arguably be return values (*COUGH*THREAD.SLEEP()*COUGH*).

I've adopted the D-style curly omission in my language.