Hi

As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it be welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant whitespace and without brackets more like python?


Thanks.

On 03/21/2014 07:47 PM, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> Hi
>
> As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it be
> welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant
> whitespace and without brackets more like python?
>
>
> Thanks.

http://delight.sourceforge.net/

Pedro Larroy:

> As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it be welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant whitespace and without brackets more like python?

You have to revive this project to port it to D2:
http://delight.sourceforge.net/

Bye,
bearophile

On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 18:47:49 UTC, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> Hi
>
> As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it be welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant whitespace and without brackets more like python?
>
>
> Thanks.

Why not just learn the correct syntax instead of perpetuating ignorance? Python syntax is not modern. COBOL just needs to go away...

On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 18:47:49 UTC, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it be welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant whitespace and without brackets more like python?

I don't think it would be really hard to do in the compiler, you could probably make it work by hacking up the lexer.

But I'm totally against it, Python has hideous syntax.

On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 18:55 +0000, Frustrated wrote:
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> Why not just learn the correct syntax instead of perpetuating ignorance? Python syntax is not modern. COBOL just needs to go away...

D syntax is of course less modern than that of Python: Python syntax is
1980s, D syntax is rooted in C syntax which is 1970s. It is an error to
equate the quality of a programming language with the age of the base
syntax: D and Python are both good programming languages, different
agreed.

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On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 19:13 +0000, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: […]
> But I'm totally against it, Python has hideous syntax.

I would leave D syntax as it is. Python syntax is not hideous, it is good; very Pythonic, unlike D.

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On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 18:51:46 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Pedro Larroy:
>
>> As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it be welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant whitespace and without brackets more like python?
>
> You have to revive this project to port it to D2:
> http://delight.sourceforge.net/
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

It's already in progress:
https://github.com/pplantinga/delight
http://pplantinga.github.io/

On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 18:47:49 UTC, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> Hi
>
> As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it be welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant whitespace and without brackets more like python?
>
>
> Thanks.


I don't think it's so difficult but it will increase a lot of code. Also, I don't believe the community will like something this. I'm not sure how accepted is python to most of this C/C++ guys. I personally don't like python/ruby/perl syntax.

On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 18:47:49 UTC, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> Hi
>
> As a newcomer to D, I wonder, how difficult would be and would it be welcome by the D community to have D's syntax with significant whitespace and without brackets more like python?
>
>
> Thanks.

What draws you to D, if not the syntax?  If you're looking for a fast, Python-like language, and you don't mind dependence on the CPython runtime, I'd suggest looking into Cython (http://cython.org/).

If you're interested in modern language features and expressive metaprogramming with a Python-like syntax, I'd recommend Julia (http://julialang.org/).

You might also be interested in Dylan (https://opendylan.org/), though I don't know much about it.