Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

["mnewberry" <mnewberry@...>]

I guess I don't see the problem with {} between the reserved keywords if, 
else, and end becuase it would seem that the parser would always have a 
context to work with. The use of "then" doesn't really bother me anyway.

But I really would like to have != and // as syntactic sugar for ~= and --

Michael

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:25:32 -0800, Chris Marrin wrote
> 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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