Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Alen Ladavac wrote:
> From: "Chris Marrin" <chris@marrin.com>
>
> > - the required 'then' keyword
>
>
> Yes indeed. That's a pain too. Did anyone ever succeed replacing then-end
> and do-end constructs to use curly braced blocks like C, i.e. "{" and "}" ?

Adding support for braces in place of the current block structuring 
would be difficult because of the clash with the use of brace for 
defining a table. Javascript, for instance, has a nasty ambiguity 
because of this.

And personally I find the Lua block syntax to be tolerable.

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