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Re: syntax complexity

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Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Of course, better than either solution is to design the language to
> require that an IF-statement is terminated with, e.g., fi (Algol 68) or END
> (Modula-2).

Or you can have two different statement types for IF with and
without an alternative branch. For example, BCPL has

IF expression THEN statement

and

TEST expression THEN statement ELSE statement

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Nils M Holm  < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g >  http://t3x.org

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