Re: Is the dangling else a syntax bug?

marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)
23 Jul 2001 23:21:58 -0400

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From: marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 23 Jul 2001 23:21:58 -0400
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
References: 01-06-073 01-07-110
Keywords: syntax, design
Posted-Date: 23 Jul 2001 23:21:58 EDT

Jack Crenshaw wrote:
> Of course it is. In both C and Pascal.
>
> As you point out, the whole problem goes away if the if is terminated
> by and endif, as in Fortran.

Or modula2. Always a block, never a "single statement"

> Personally, I much prefer endfor, enddo, endcase, etc., as well. The
> keyword 'end' is overloaded ... um ... no end.

So do I. And end "function name/module name" to terminate
procs/functions and modules.

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