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From: ka@june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Proposal for a scientific look at C style choices
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Date: 5 Jan 89 06:16:18 GMT
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> Humans process 2d information extremely well - they are only moderately good
> at parsing long strings.  On the other hand, computers are very good at
> parsing long strings - they are at best only moderately good at processing
> 2d information.

Actually, even computers are pretty good at recognizing indentation.  If
you use Yacc, which expects its input to consist of a series of tokens,
make the lexical analyzer can look at the indentation level and generate
the beginning and ending braces.  I've done this; it takes less than a
page of code to implement.
				Kenneth Almquist