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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: improve world by dropping languages with ;
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Date: 12 Mar 91 04:34:50 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.211643.12151@linus.mitre.org> <1991Feb26.141339.22191@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1991Mar02.200330.13408@convex.com>
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In article <1991Mar02.200330.13408@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>
>Separate tokens with white space, of course, but don't try to tell me
>that space, tabs, and newlines are different, or that the indentation
>should affect the meaning.

Well, here are *my* *preferences*.

Given:

	I hate to type.

	Most statements are one line and vice versa

	Sometimes they aren't, and vice versa.

Conclusions:

	Newlines should terminate statements

	If you want two statements on a line,
	separate or terminate them with ;

	If you want a statement on two lines,
	continue the first with \

There is already such a beast. The shell.

So yes, newlines are somewhat different. Or if you prefer,
there is horizontal whitespace, and there is vertical whitespace.
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