Re: A newbie question

Juha Vehviläinen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.breve
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ha! For a moment there you got me...

j

> > Hi,
> >
> > How about accepting ; instead of . ?
> >
> > Anyway it's cosmetics, language syntax parsing is hardly
> > the most important stuff..
> 
> To be honest, semicolons at the end of lines or between commands seem 
> rather like a rather poor choice of a symbol and the whole process 
> seems quite backwards.
> 
> Coming from a background of "I learned to read English first so I 
> naturally think that way", when someone presses return to go to the 
> next line, the compiler should think "hey, I'll just treat that like 
> the programmer wanted the line to end".
> 
> If the programmer wants the next line to be a continuation of the line 
> before it, there should be a "line continuation symbol" such as Apple's 
> option L.
> 
> - Zav
> I love the camera and the camera loves me.
> http://pets.reptilian-feline.net/images/zav.jpg

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