In article <3C6### [at] webconde>,


> they use a indentation rule to figure out when a statement belongs to 
> a block. As long as you indent new lines more than the line that 
> started the block, the compiler knows you want to stay within that 
> block. As soon as you indent lesser, it adds a implicit "}".
> Works great.

I've never liked the idea of a language that relied on indentation and 
white space as controlling elements. Some kind of visible block 
delimiter is much better, and "{}" are already used in many languages, 
so people are familiar with them. Explicit begin and end keywords are 
also used in some languages, these take more typing and make more 
cluttered code in my opinion, but are better than whitespace.

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
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