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From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: return expr and if expr
Message-ID: <2062@brl-vgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 15-May-84 08:43:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 15 08:43:45 1984
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If one is serious about changing if & when syntax to remove ( ),
then something else must also be changed to indicate grouping.
The usual solution is something like
	if cond then stmt fi
where if, then, & fi are keywords.

Better yet is
	if cond then expr fi
so we can get rid of the ternary operator ? : .
Keep going, and you end up with a language that looks a lot like
Algol-68.