Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Nils M Holm Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: syntax complexity Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:26:00 +0100 Organization: TARFU Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <23-02-058@comp.compilers> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="36949"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: history, syntax Posted-Date: 21 Feb 2023 16:19:28 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3397 Anton Ertl 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