Re: Is the dangling else a syntax bug?

marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)
2 Aug 2001 02:30:32 -0400

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From: marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 2 Aug 2001 02:30:32 -0400
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
References: 01-07-153 01-07-160
Keywords: syntax, design
Posted-Date: 02 Aug 2001 02:30:32 EDT

Wclodius wrote:
>>"Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de> schreibt:
>>
>>>An interesting variation of this is the use of unindentation as "end"
>>>marker. This has been done e.g. in Python and Haskell.
>>
>>Did you ever see source code with a mix of tab and space characters?
>>Such text becomes unreadable to both a human and a compiler, when the
>>tab size is changed to some user defined value. The whole source code
>>then is bound to a specific editor :-(
>
> The solution is easy. Define the language so that indentation using
> tabs is illegal.


Which redefines half of all existing editors as well :-)


And all tools that (might) operate on plain text.

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