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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Javier Guerra wrote:
>
> i think "then" is there so you don't need compulsory parenthesis
> around the condition, like on c-wannabe languages.

There's no need for brackets to disambiguate a statement that ends with an
expression from the subsequent statement, so there wouldn't be any need
for them if "then" were optional.

Tony.
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