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From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
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Subject: Re: C bites / programming style
Message-ID: <227@ukecc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 11:52:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 11:52:10 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:07:15 EDT
References: <1370@brl-tgr.ARPA>
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In article <1370@brl-tgr.ARPA>, DHowell.ES@XEROX.ARPA writes:
> Personally, I don't really like the {} braces of C, nor the "begin..end"
> of Pascal and its relatives.  This is one thing that Ada has going for
> it with its "if..then..endif" style.
> I like to use these definitions:
> #define IF if(
> #define THEN ){
> #define ELSE }else{
> #define ENDIF }
> ...
> IF condition THEN
>   statement_1
> ELSE
>   statement_2
> ENDIF
> ...
> Which I think is much cleaner than anything using braces or begin..end.
> Dan <DHowell.ES@Xerox.ARPA>

	Hmmmm, I think Dan just invented FORTRAN77! (almost)