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Re: Optional "then" and "do"

• Posted by Arthur Crump <arthur.crump at ntl??rld.com> May 16, 2008
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I use Judith Evan's editor which fills in 'if' and 'for' blocks, so
I don't have anything extra to type.  However, I agree with Phil Russell
that they should not be optional, although it is only a slight preference.

As for 'goto' I do not approve of 'goto'.
I started programming with low level languages (in 1958) and moved on to
languages in which 'goto' was the only method of flow control.  Now that
it is not there, I don't miss it and would not use it if it was implemented,
provided that a 'next' (or 'continue' if that is what it has to be) was
implemented.

Arthur Crump



Phil Russell wrote:
> 
> <unlurk>
> 
> Somewhat belatedly, I *don't* want "then" and "do" to 
> be optional. I wouldn't like the current straightforward
> syntax to be complicated just to save a couple of keystrokes.
> 
> wrt goto:  I'm with Jacques Deschenes on this one - within a
> code block only. That said, I haven't used one in 15 years,
> and I ain't about to start now...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
> </unlurk>