Subject: Re: KNF and braces (was: Re: EGCS 1.1 UPDATE rev. 4)
To: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
From: None <proff@iq.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/19/1998 23:08:12
> You should try Python. No braces on blocks. Code block are delimited
> by the indentation. Basically, if it looks like what you meant to do,
> it is what you meant to do.
>
> --
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@{druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves
Presumably stolen from Haskell. UFO and other functional languages
also do this. It makes nice `clean' reading. Despite that statement,
personally I like LISP/Scheme, which ignoring macros et al has only
four basic syntactic elements.
`the code is the parse tree'
Cheers,
Julian.