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From: djfiander@watnot.UUCP (David J. Fiander)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: compound statements
Message-ID: <11865@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Jul-86 12:35:01 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  6 12:35:01 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jul-86 01:13:05 EDT
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Reply-To: djfiander@watnot.UUCP (David J. Fiander)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: Other languages

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

Don't forget : Pascal (even if you want to), Modula-2 (same thing really),
Ada (tm), and COBOL (I think, it's been a while).  It's very common.  In
fact a friend of mine here at the university was also wondering why that
restriction exists, although he was mainly concerned with C at the time.
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