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- Subject: Re: Lexical environments
- From: Gé Weijers <ge@...>
- Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:19:31 -0800
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 19:21 +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> 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.
'then' is very helpful for the parser. The one in my brain :-)
Seriously, language syntax is mostly designed for the human reader. If
it does not have to be readable we could keep our languages really
simple.
