APL\360

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Fri Jan 29 15:15:10 CST 2021


On 1/29/21 12:58 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> Without OTHER changes in parsing arithmetic expressions, that may or

> I like indentation, and demanded it from my students.
> while (k)
> {   if (foo)
>     {  ..do this thing
>        ..do that thing
>     }
>     else
>     {  ..something here
>     }
> }
> 

That's fine, but when you have a language that makes indentation part of
the language (i.e. no braces, brackets or keywords denoting boundaries
of the block) , there be monsters.

And yes, there are such languages.

--Chuck


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