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Re: Can we simplify "end"?

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo?c?m> Aug 08, 2007
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jacques deschênes wrote:
> 
> Personnaly it doesn't bother me to have to write the block type after end.
> More I see it as as self documenting feature, when there is many level of
> block
> even with indentation its easier to locate where each block ends this way as
> sometimes the block may be more than one screen full of lines.
> 
> regards,
> Jacques Deschênes
> 
> 
> Bryan So wrote:
> > 
> > I think it is quite redundant to use different endings for
> > 
> >    end procedure
> >    end function
> >    end if
> >    end while 
> > 
> > etc...
> > 
> > with proper indentation, which I am sure we all use, one
> > 
> >    end
> > 
> > should be enough to end a loop or condition or function, etc, 
> > without any ambiguity.  
> > 
> > Bryan

Heh, usually I'll write a comment describing what I'm ending, be it function or
procedure or loop or whatever.

procedure do_something(object x)
    -- something
end procedure -- do_something()

"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."

anonymous "Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection." M. Haertel "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."

C.A.R. Hoare j. }}}

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