22 Jun
2006
22 Jun
'06
6:16 a.m.
woodelf wrote:
Don Y wrote:
This is how I learned "programming" back in the dark ages
(though it was expressed as A <- B + 1 and read as "A gets
B + 1)
A = B + 1
technically has two bits of punctuation but they are semi-intuitive;
one would assume "equals" to mean '=', etc.
OTOH:
A ::= B + 1
B + 1 -> A Seems more streight forward to me. B > 1 if ... fi how about
B <= 5 if ... then ... fi
B = 7 ifthen ... j ifthen ... fi
This is perl-esque.
begin ... end
call a b c foobar
Fine for a procedure. But, what if foobar is a *function*!
It's *really* hard to mess with this syntactic sugar -- we've
all become so used to seeing and using it that it's ingrained
in our expectations. :-(