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Re: Optional "then" and "do"

• Posted by Shawn Pringle <shawn.pringle at ?mail.co?> May 18, 2008
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I suppose you have used cobol and fortran then.  I myself have never used
those two languages and I get the impression that most people here are of
the C/Java syntax users.  I used to use basic but that is as early as I 
get.  Is there anything missing, in terms of library functions or constructs
that these languages had that EUPHORIA should?

Shawn Pringle


Arthur Crump wrote:
> 
> 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>