I sing the praises of lambda, my friend and savior!
Michael Hobbs
mike at hobbshouse.org
Wed Oct 13 13:23:01 EDT 2004
Clark C. Evans <cce at clarkevans.com> wrote:
> In general, indentation is great for "outer-structure" that is,
> delimiting large code blocks. While delimiter based scoping is good
> for inner structures, small blocks of code. It should not be an
> either/or thing, one should properly have the option of using either
> option depending upon which style brings the most clarity.
The Haskell language (http://www.haskell.org) does exactly this. It uses
indentation to infer structure, but the programmer is allowed to explicitly
state structure using semicolons and braces.
- Michael Hobbs
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