Re: Is the dangling else a syntax bug?

lars@bearnip.com (Lars Duening) schreibt:


>effectively allow the use of the separators as if they are terminators. The
>reason I remember reading was that with this change the language would be
>easier to use.


Unfortunately this change made the Pascal (Delphi) language much
harder to parse, and wasn't very helpful for the users. There remain
nasty places, where additional separators are not allowed, or change
the semantics if appended. These situations IMO are harder to
understand, because people now erroneously think of terminators
instead of separators, and consequently wonder about "inconsequent"
compiler messages.


DoDi

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