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From: goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Algol->Icon & Pascal
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Date: 14 May 91 22:26:51 GMT
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I've always wondered why Icon uses the brace notation (rather than
begin ... end;) for most groupings, but yet for procedures, a kind
of mixed procedure name(vars)...end notation is used.  I'm also a
bit curious why the notion of functions and procedures was collap-
sed into procedures, and yet with retention of the notion that a
procedure is a value (i.e. like what we normally associate with fun-
ctions).

Just curious.

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   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer