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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: [PC] Simple AST |
| Date | 2019-03-09 02:28 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87y35oaihv.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes: > James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes: > >>> I have also tended to write things like "return(0);", even if >>> technically the parens are superfluous in this case. >> >> That makes a return statement look like a function-call statement. >> Because of the popularity of that style, I've known people who thought >> that it was a function. > > This shows that it is an advantage to adopt an homogenous syntax. > Note that we already have: > > if(…) > while(…) > do(…) Not in C. The 'do' statement ends with the condition after a 'while'. > for(…) > > your_random_function(…) > > so why not: > > return(…) Ken Thompson certainly thought so (early C imported this syntax from B). But then you'd also need goto(...) break() continue() and so on too if you want consistency. > Now, in for(…;…;…)… we already have 3 expressions in the parentheses, or a declaration and two expressions. > so > the question is why not also put inside the parentheses the following > expression? in if(…)… we already have one expression in the > parentheses, so the question is why not also put inside the parentheses > the following expression? and so on. > > (if test then else) > (while test body) > (do body) > (for (init test increment) body) > (return expression) > (your-random-function arguments) > > and you get lisp :-) yay! No, you just get a syntax a bit like Lisp's. If you think I'm nit-picking, write a simple translator from this unified syntax to C's current syntax and you can then drop using Lisp and switch to C. Doesn't appeal? No, I thought not! (Yes, I saw the :-), but it's too valuable point both ways. Many people hate C's syntax, and many people hate Lisp's syntax, but what makes C C and Lisp Lisp is very much more than that.) -- Ben.
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[PC] Simple AST luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-02-16 14:23 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2019-02-19 15:14 -0600
Re: [PC] Simple AST luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-02-19 19:51 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2019-02-20 09:28 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-02-20 09:39 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-03-06 08:34 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 09:02 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST "I Set My Girlfriend's Pantyhose on Fire" <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 11:14 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-03-07 14:11 +1300
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 17:48 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-03-07 15:21 +1300
Re: [PC] Simple AST luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 18:28 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 18:37 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 18:47 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 18:53 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-03-06 18:38 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-06 09:53 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 09:59 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-03-06 19:49 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-06 19:23 +0000
Re: [PC] Simple AST David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-06 23:29 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2019-03-06 21:54 -0600
Re: [PC] Simple AST James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-08 18:52 -0500
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-03-09 01:56 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-08 18:22 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-09 14:02 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-09 12:20 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-10 00:04 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-09 02:28 +0000
Re: [PC] Simple AST BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2019-03-08 23:06 -0600
Re: [PC] Simple AST Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-03-12 23:06 -0700
Re: [PC] Simple AST Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-03-14 06:48 +0000
Re: [PC] Simple AST James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-14 07:14 -0400
Re: [PC] Simple AST Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-03-14 14:58 +0000
Re: [PC] Simple AST James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-14 10:13 -0700
Re: [PC] Simple AST Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-03-18 08:34 -0700
Re: [PC] Simple AST Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-03-23 10:57 -0700
Re: [PC] Simple AST James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-25 11:42 -0700
Re: [PC] Simple AST Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-03-18 07:18 -0700
Re: [PC] Simple AST Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-14 15:34 +0000
Divorcing rabbits with Tim R (Was: [PC] Simple AST) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-03-14 16:52 +0000
Re: [PC] Simple AST Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-06 22:12 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-07 08:54 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-03-07 03:20 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-03-12 23:08 -0700
Re: [PC] Simple AST luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 14:08 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-06 22:13 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-06 19:38 +0000
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-03-06 11:54 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2019-03-07 14:43 +0300
Re: [PC] Simple AST "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-03-07 03:58 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-07 13:07 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2019-02-20 10:35 +0100
Re: [PC] Simple AST Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-02-20 14:26 +0000
Re: [PC] Simple AST BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2019-02-20 14:32 -0600
Re: [PC] Simple AST "I Set My Girlfriend's Pantyhose on Fire" <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-02-21 13:38 -0800
Re: [PC] Simple AST Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-02-22 04:03 -0800
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