Re: The semicolon habit (was: Q: Definition

[ semicolon vs. indentation-sensitive ] :


Why not making it an option? Like so:


if a semi-colon appears, the compiler reads that as "end-of-line" and
starts processing a new line.
if a '\n' (newline) appears, the compiler also reads that as
    "end-of-line".


This means that I could write C like:


i++
j = i +1
for(i=0
        i<5
        i++)
    { j = i-1; zx = log2(j); }


etc...


Looks pretty cool to me. Is there a reason why not to do this?


Charles Bloom
cbloom@micom.com
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