http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2659

           Summary: Remove the comma operator
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla@digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: clugdbug@yahoo.com.au


The comma operator is an unintuitive operator with very few commendable uses.

If comma were added to the increment grammar of the for loop, the comma operator could be removed from the language.

It's another piece of baggage from C.


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------- Comment #1 from wbaxter@gmail.com  2009-02-16 19:10 -------
(In reply to comment #0)
> The comma operator is an unintuitive operator with very few commendable uses.

About the only real use it gets in C is in preprocessor macro hacks.  And we all know D's stance on preprocessing.

> If comma were added to the increment grammar of the for loop, the comma operator could be removed from the language.

Or put to better purpose making (a,b,c) a literal tuple syntax.


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--- Comment #2 from Don <clugdbug@yahoo.com.au> 2012-10-23 07:45:53 PDT ---
Just encountered another newbie reason for removing comma.

    writeln( 6, mixin("7,8"), 9 );

doesn't print the expected 6 7 8 9. Instead it prints 6 8 9.

If comma was removed, this wouldn't compile.

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