Philip Newton wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2000, Johan Vromans wrote:
> >
> > By the same reasoning, you can reduce the use of curlies by using
> > indentation to define block structure.
>
> What an idea! I wonder why no language has tried this before.
It's a question of what the language allows vs. what it requires.
Perl is nice because it allows you to write in (nearly) any style you
want -- lots of parens, no whitespace... Requiring the use of parens
is about as un-perl-like as requiring indentation to denote blocks.
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John Porter
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