Re: Is the dangling else a syntax bug?

"Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de>
23 Jul 2001 23:22:47 -0400

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From: "Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 23 Jul 2001 23:22:47 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 01-06-073 01-07-110
Keywords: syntax, design
Posted-Date: 23 Jul 2001 23:22:47 EDT

Jack Crenshaw <jcrens@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> As you point out, the whole problem goes away if the if is terminated
> by and endif, as in Fortran.
>
> Personally, I much prefer endfor, enddo, endcase, etc., as well. The
> keyword 'end' is overloaded ... um ... no end.


An interesting variation of this is the use of unindentation as "end"
marker. This has been done e.g. in Python and Haskell.


Regards,
Joachim

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