Andrew Dunstan wrote:
But this doesn't make it easier to use - users don't just include those who write it. The antecedent language of these, Ada, from which this syntax comes, was explicitly designed to be reader-friendly as opposed to writer-friendly, and this is a part of that.
IMHO it is just needless verbiage that makes programs both harder to read *and* harder to write, albeit marginally so. I think there is a reason why Ada-style block terminators are in the minority among block-structured languages :)
But obviously this is a matter of taste -- does anyone else like or dislike the current syntax?
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