Re: Ignore break line sometimes

Geovani de Souza schrieb:
> I'm trying write an parser to my compiler, and I'm interessed to
> ignore the break line (\n) sometimes. E.g:
>
> if true then [\n] foo(); [\n] end; [\n]
>
> So, in the first line, the '\n' after 'then' isn't important, but in
> the second "foo();" could replace the need of the semicolon to
> conclude the statement, or still, in the 'end'.


That's why many (compiled) languages ignore line ends and other
whitespace, and require explicit statement termination, e.g. by a
semicolon. Interpreters instead often prefer the "one statement per
line" approach, with the option to concatenate statements by e.g. a colon.


IMO you should make a decision about the meaning of whitespace in
general, and of line endings in detail, in your language.


Please give an example that would compile differently when linefeeds are
    removed, and then answer yourself the question whether this really
will make sense.


DoDi

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