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From: mark@ems.UUCP (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Discussion on removing punctuation in programming languages
Message-ID: <20@ems.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 00:38:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 22 00:38:22 1986
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References: <7796DMB@PSUVMA> <337@ndmce.uucp> <1097@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU> <1555@k.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: mark@ems.UUCP (Mark H. Colburn)
Organization: EMS/McGraw-Hill, Eden Prairie, MN
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Keywords: indentation,language,compilers
Summary: Opposing viewpoint

In article <1555@k.cc.purdue.edu> afd@k.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Bob Hathaway) writes:
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>    Indentation is an excellent way to delimit control structures.
>    It takes advantage of the natural structure programmers impose
>    on their programs, and does away with a lot of cumbersome puncuation.
>    Ignoring this information is unnecessary and error-prone.
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>				Bob Hathaway

I would tend to agree, except that I have seen so many different ways to
indent the same piece of code.  By imposing the indentation delimiting,
programmers must all use the same indentation style (since it would have
to be part of the grammar of the language.  I would think that this might
outrage more programmers then it placates.


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