Re: A newbie question
Juha Vehviläinen <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ breve mailing list [email protected] http://www.spiderland.org/mailman/listinfo/breve