Using indentation for blocking
Fred Pacquier
fredp at multimania.com.nospam
Fri Sep 10 09:45:25 EDT 1999
fredrik at pythonware.com (Fredrik Lundh) said :
> "We will perhaps eventually be writing only small
> modules which are identified by name as they are
> used to build larger ones, so that devices like
> indentation, rather than delimiters, might become
> feasible for expressing local structure in the source
> language."
> -- Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto
> Statements", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974
Wow ! Great quote, thanks !
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