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Re: optional then-do, was: Feature creep

• Posted by Kat <KAT12 at coosa?s.ne?> May 15, 2008
• 639 views

CChris wrote:

<snippage occured>
 
> Keep then and friends optional, I see nothing wrong with them apart from
> having
> to type them and clutter the screen.

I vote for optional, and i will keep typing them in any case that spreads across
lines in the editor. Ex:

if blah x = 0 end if
if blorpe then
  -- lotsa code
end if
if cowabunga
  then
  else
end if

I understand as an offshoot of the optional, i could also use "then" in place of
"do" and vice versa and not cause an error.

while lenc do
if lenc do
goto lenc
case lenc do
}}}
<eucode>

> But they spare you the "end <block>".

I vote in favor of "end <block>", it proves the interpreter knows what i believe
is the end of that block, and i have had to tell the interpreter that from time
to time, where the end of which block is...

}}}
<eucode>
while what do
  -- code
  if blah 
   then -- do this
   else -- do that
  end while
  --code
end if

That's just my votes, that's all, because "option" doesn't force me to do it
that way.

Kat