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Re: improve world by dropping languages with ;

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From: John D. Burger
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 1991 21:16
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oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>dww@math.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes:
>
>>Now what do I do about statements like
>>
>>  a := b
>>       + c ?
>
>I am not sure what you mean. What is there to do? ``a := b'' statement is
>complete, and the ``+ c'' statement is in error, at least in most of the
>languages I know of that do away with the semicolon. In such languages
>[e.g. Icon, Bell Labs S etc] a statement is allowed to continue only when
>it is clear that the end of the expression cannot have occurred yet. In
>practice, this is easy to implement, and works rather well.
>
>oz
>---
>Why should the status of my code depend on  | Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca
>what RMS had for breakfast? -- Jay Maynard  | Uucp: utzoo/utai!yunexus!oz

How can anyone stand to program in a language where whitespace matters
in this way?  Why should the status of my code depend on whitespace?
--
John Burger                                               john@mitre.org

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Subject: Re: improve world by dropping languages with ;
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