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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: compound statements
Message-ID: <5752@alice.uUCp>
Date: Sat, 5-Jul-86 11:44:15 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  5 11:44:15 1986
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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> In many languages, the body of a program or subprogram consists of a
> compound statement.  This seems like an arbitrary restriction, and is
> quite annoying at times.  Often the action of a program or subprogam
> is expressable as a single statement, and I would never otherwise
> enclose a single statement within a compound statement.

What languages?

The only one that comes to mind is C.  I suspect that it makes parsing
much easier in C.