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Subject: Re: Discussion on removing punctuation in programming languages
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 14:56:53 EDT
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  My point to all those who say delimeters aid in compiler writing is that
fully bracketed statement syntax do just the same thing that seperators do.
Plus they remove some ambiquities (dangling else as in Modula-2's
if elsif elsif elsif else form)


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