Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site hammer.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!hammer!seifert From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: "C" wish list/semicolons Message-ID: <1636@hammer.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 16:40:19 EST Article-I.D.: hammer.1636 Posted: Wed Nov 13 16:40:19 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Nov-85 05:18:50 EST References: <335@graffiti.UUCP> <895@rlvd.UUCP> <742@mmintl.UUCP> <6107@utzoo.UUCP> <142@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> <2364@ukma.UUCP> Reply-To: tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Lines: 16 Keywords: language design C semicolons argh In article <2364@ukma.UUCP> david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes: >All this stuff with blocks (and whether to use begin...end or {..}) >is silliness. > >Why not be totally visual about it? When you want a block of stuff, >simply draw a box around it. For goto statements, draw a line from the >box to wherever you want to go. > >Sigh. It doesn't solve the seperator problem (unless you want to >have one box per statement). Sounds like you want to program in "flowchart". Snoopy (ECS Ronin #901) tektronix!tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy