Teaching Programming

[superpollo]

Martin P. Hellwig ha scritto:
> On 05/04/10 11:28, superpollo wrote:
>> Samuel Williams ha scritto:
>>> I personally like indentation.
>>>
>>> I just wonder whether it is an issue that some people will dislike.
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>> there might be problems if for example you
>> generate code from a one-line template.
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> Well a one-line template code generator are great and such, but if the 
> output should be human readable it is necessary to have at least some 
> form of mark-up control on it. Like newlines and indentations.

or latex markup, in my case...

> On the other hand if it is only meant to generate executable code, 
> generating an interpreted code might not be the best solution for the 
> actual problem.

yes, maybe generating code for a *compiler* might be faster but you must 
consider overhead due to compilation time, especially if code snippets 
are sprinkled by the dozen all over the template file.

> For the corner cases (I can think of a couple) it is good to know you 
> can use ';' most of the time.
> 

most but not always as i noted (think about loops or function definition)

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