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From: richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Loops
Message-ID: <340@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Apr 88 21:50:33 GMT
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In article <YWK3hUy00VA88IO0UA@andrew.cmu.edu> jk3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Keane) writes:
>While i'm at childish flaming, i might as well say that i _really_ hate `fi',
>`rof', `esac', and `elihw'.  Can anyone say they're a good idea and keep a
>straight face?

Yeah, I think they're great, especially 'tnemmoc' and 'nigeb'.

And seriously, they can result in slightly better error detection than
a system that uses the same (unlabelled) delimiters for different constructs.

-- Richard
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