Re: Philosophical question regarding statement terminators

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11 Nov 2000 10:10:15 -0500

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From: vbdis@aol.com (VBDis)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Nov 2000 10:10:15 -0500
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References: 00-11-069
Keywords: syntax
Posted-Date: 11 Nov 2000 10:10:15 EST

Chris F Clark <cfc@world.std.com> schreibt:
>All statements began with a keyword with the notable exception of
>"let" which was optional


IMO "Let" was not optional in the very first Basic implementations, it
acted as one of the legal begin-of-statement tokens. Later this
definition was relaxed, so that an identifier would definitely begin
an assignment statement.


DoDi
[That's correct, Dartmouth Basic required the LET. That's one of the
reasons the compiler was so fast -- the first token always told it what
kind of statement it was. -John]





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