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- Subject: Re: Ambiguous syntax
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:13:42 -0800
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Robert Virding
<robert.virding@erlang-solutions.com> wrote:
> Of course a simple way to remove this ambiguity would be to require ';'
> between statements or to terminate statements. Of course this would require
> people to make large increases in the size of their files but it might be
> worth it to remove the ambiguity.
Which would break source compatibility for virtually all scripts. WAY
too late in the language's development for that kind of proposal.
> Luerl parses them as one call, strictly left-to-right until there is nothing
> more which can be added to the call.
Which is what 5.2 does as well.
/s/ Adam
