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Article #32Re: hello world
From: Pete Bevin
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:52
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:52
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Jerzy Tarasiuk writes: > I suggest: count of PLEASE should be > 1/5 of statement count and > count_of_PLEASE-1 should be < 1/3, this makes possibility to write > single-line program: 0001 PLEASE WRITEHELO which otherwise would be > rejected by compiler (programmer too polite), You don't need to do that -- you can just add extra (useless) statements before, during or after the line you want. Changes like that are just the sort of thing that threaten to destroy Intercal's concise, elegant structure. It's important to find out ways of doing things in the language, rather than changing the compiler every time we have a problem. Pete. -- Pete Bevin -- pete@sst.icl.co.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!dsbc!jura!pete From: pete@sst.icl.co.uk (Pete Bevin) Newsgroups: alt.lang.intercal Subject: Re: hello world Message-ID: <pete.092342.13Nov92@sst.icl.co.uk> Date: 13 Nov 92 09:52:14 GMT References: <WORLEY.92Oct28143228@world.std.com> <1992Nov6.164506.19620@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <JT.92Nov12181637@fizyk1.fuw.edu.pl> Sender: news@dsbc.icl.co.uk Reply-To: pete@sst.icl.co.uk (Pete Bevin) Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: sst.icl.co.uk Originator: pete@jura