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| Re: syntax complexity gah4@u.washington.edu (gah4) (2023-02-16) |
| Re: syntax complexity costello@mitre.org (Roger L Costello) (2023-02-20) |
| Re: syntax complexity gah4@u.washington.edu (gah4) (2023-02-20) |
| Re: syntax complexity gneuner2@comcast.net (George Neuner) (2023-02-20) |
| Re: syntax complexity anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (2023-02-21) |
| syntax complexity christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com (Christopher F Clark) (2023-02-21) |
| Re: syntax complexity nmh@t3x.org (Nils M Holm) (2023-02-21) |
| Re: syntax complexity anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (2023-02-21) |
| From: | Nils M Holm <nmh@t3x.org> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:26:00 +0100 |
| Organization: | TARFU |
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| Keywords: | history, syntax |
| Posted-Date: | 21 Feb 2023 16:19:28 EST |
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Of course, better than either solution is to design the language to
> require that an IF-statement is terminated with, e.g., fi (Algol 68) or END
> (Modula-2).
Or you can have two different statement types for IF with and
without an alternative branch. For example, BCPL has
IF expression THEN statement
and
TEST expression THEN statement ELSE statement
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Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org
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