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| From | Nils M Holm <nmh@t3x.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: syntax complexity |
| Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:26:00 +0100 |
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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 -- Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org
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