Re: Syntax and redundancy

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Gavin Wraith wrote:
> > The `end-sth' property is present in Ada, Dylan and other
> > languages. In some of them the additional word is not
> > mandatory.
> > Another option is the ending word being the reverse of
> > the opening one: if -- fi, do -- od etc. Example is Algol 68.
>
> I always thought that very ugly.

Me too. I never user Algol, but I remember a language doing that (which 
one?), and I didn't liked it.

> > As for Pascal, it has neither of these. There, the body of
> > a control statement is just another statement, simple or
> > compound (begin -- end). An exception of this rule
> > (which introduces a bit of inconsistency in the language)
> > is the repeat -- end loop.
>
> My apologies to Pascal. It is a long time since I was exposed
> to it, but I remember it as verbose.

Well, Basic, at least Visual Basic, does that:
End If
End Sub
End With
End Select
etc.

Only End is mandatory, but I used to add the optional word all the time.
Same for Next <VariableLoopName>, the variable being optional.

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