1 Sep
2017
1 Sep
'17
4:45 a.m.
On 2017-08-31 17:47, Larry McVoy wrote:
IF (expr)
BEGIN
blah
blah
blah
END
I'm sorry but I'm with whoever it was that said { } are better than
BEGIN END. Seems trivial but it's not to me.
IMO, that's taking 1 part of a large coherent whole and judging by that.
I am terrible with metaphors and similes, but maybe a bit like saying "I
don't like the GPL because it restricts what I can do with my code."
Here's another construct from C:
for (i = n; i > 0; --i) {
blah();
}
In a language like Pascal (really Algol), that is
FOR i = n TO 0 DO
Blah()
DONE
That's much closer typing-wise, isn't it? That's because of the melding
of the brackets with the control structure keywords. But you can't do
that _and_ have braces.
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