Re: Compress a sequence of ends

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 18:21, Pascal J. Bourguignon
<pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za> wrote:
>>> On the other hand, if a loop and a conditional, or nested loops,
>>> have the same body, I write as a habit
>>>    for i=1,n  if x[i]~=0
>>>        -- (body)
>>>        end end
>>
>> I also commonly do things like
>>
>> for k=1, 10 do
>> for j=1, 10 do
>> for i=1, 10 do
>>   f(i, j, k)
>> end end end
>>
>> Replacing `end end end` with `ennnd` or (preferably) `end3` is not
>> going to gain much.
>
> I've got an idea.  Let's use a single character, instead of a keyword
> here.
>
> (for k=1, 10 do
>  (for j=1, 10 do
>  (for i=1, 10 do
>    f(i, j, k)
>    )))
>
>
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
> A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.
>
>
>

The traditional characters used for that would be { and }... though
judging from your signature I guess you don't like that idea. :)

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