Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!seismo!ukma!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!think.com!linus!linus!mingus!john From: john@mingus.mitre.org (John D. Burger) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: improve world by dropping languages with ; Message-ID: <1991Feb22.211643.12151@linus.mitre.org> Date: 22 Feb 91 21:16:43 GMT References: <21900005@inmet> <21733@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730 Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: mingus.mitre.org oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes: >dww@math.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes: > >>Now what do I do about statements like >> >> a := b >> + c ? > >I am not sure what you mean. What is there to do? ``a := b'' statement is >complete, and the ``+ c'' statement is in error, at least in most of the >languages I know of that do away with the semicolon. In such languages >[e.g. Icon, Bell Labs S etc] a statement is allowed to continue only when >it is clear that the end of the expression cannot have occurred yet. In >practice, this is easy to implement, and works rather well. > >oz >--- >Why should the status of my code depend on | Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca >what RMS had for breakfast? -- Jay Maynard | Uucp: utzoo/utai!yunexus!oz How can anyone stand to program in a language where whitespace matters in this way? Why should the status of my code depend on whitespace? -- John Burger john@mitre.org "You ever think about .signature files? I mean, do we really need them?" - alt.andy.rooney