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Subject: Re: compound statements
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Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 05:15:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  8 05:15:02 1986
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> > In many languages, the body of a program or subprogram consists of a
> > compound statement.  This ... is quite annoying at times.
> 
> What languages?
> The only one that comes to mind is C.  I suspect that it makes parsing
> much easier in C.

Algol 68 also has this annoying property (but only for procedures, nowhere
else).  It makes parsing *possible*, not just easier.
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