POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Computer language quirks : Re: Computer language quirks Server Time
29 Jul 2024 20:15:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Computer language quirks  
From: Darren New
Date: 3 May 2011 11:40:35
Message: <4dc021f3$1@news.povray.org>
On 5/3/2011 1:43, Invisible wrote:
> That's slightly less load.

Still ugly, and non-standard formatting. :-)

> Of course, The Real WTF is "functions" that return void. ;-)

Like functions that return unit are better?

>> Also, I realized I tend to have larger functions than necessary because
>> most languages I'm using don't let me nest functions.
>
> No comment. ;-)

I realize that this is the primary semantic difference between "Algol-like 
languages" and "C-like languages", with the use of punctuation instead of 
keywords being the syntactic primary difference.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."


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