Re: syntax complexity

Nils M Holm <nmh@t3x.org>
Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:26:00 +0100

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From: Nils M Holm <nmh@t3x.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:26:00 +0100
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Posted-Date: 21 Feb 2023 16:19:28 EST

Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Of course, better than either solution is to design the language to
> require that an IF-statement is terminated with, e.g., fi (Algol 68) or END
> (Modula-2).


Or you can have two different statement types for IF with and
without an alternative branch. For example, BCPL has


IF expression THEN statement


and


TEST expression THEN statement ELSE statement


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Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org


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