Re: language design tradeoffs

rob@guinness.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
Thu, 17 Sep 1992 03:19:23 GMT

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From: rob@guinness.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 03:19:23 GMT
References: 92-09-048 92-09-083
Keywords: design, parse

jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>Statement termination syntax design rules (as derived from human factors
>experience):
>3) The EOL character should be the statement terminator. [...]


Hm. Did whoever did that research take large mathematical expressions
(which naturally translate to multi-line statements) into account? My
single most common syntax error in FORTRAN and Matlab is forgetting the
continuation marker on a multi-line statement.


SR
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