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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Block Closure
Message-ID: <4915@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 02:33:52 GMT
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In article <5100@aw.sei.cmu.edu> firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu.UUCP (Robert Firth) writes:
>A feasible design might be a combination of CPL tags and Modula syntax,
>for instance:
>
How about taking the normal c {} and appending a label, perhaps attached
with a character that would otherwise be illegal, then requiring the
matching label at the closure.  A pre-processor could easily strip the
labels off for the pure at heart.  This would be ugly, but it would make
it possible for the dumbest of editors to find matching block delimiters
and it would help do away with most c compilers' notion that "there aren't
any wrong c programs" (just because it wasn't what you intended it to
be...).

 Les Mikesell