March 13, 2004 Re: suggestion | ||||
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Posted in reply to J C Calvarese | very witty! :o)) Phill. "J C Calvarese" <jcc7@cox.net> wrote in message news:c2tm2o$248$1@digitaldaemon.com... > Phill wrote: > > "Ilya Minkov" <minkov@cs.tum.edu> wrote in message news:c2nbmv$15cs$1@digitaldaemon.com... > > > >>It would raise the ambiguity even further. While languages like Python (which has line-based formatting) and Eiffel (which ignores line ends, but semicolons are optional) can afford that, i think C-like languages cannot. This would cause too much ambiguity and lead to even more stupid bugs! Don't you have enough of ambiguities? > >> > >>Don't see how it would be besser to readability. > >> > >>-eye > > > > > > I agree, it would take much more time to read code. > > > > For instance a for loop: > > for(int i = 0 i < somthin i++) > > > > Even that small amount of code is much harder to read than this: > > for(int i = 0; i < somthin; i++) > > > > In my opinion it would be like taking the full stops > > out of sentences. > > now that you mention it that is a very good point i think that semi colons are as important to d as periods and other punctuation marks are essential to written communications in english actually i find it quite difficult to either read or write without using punctuation i think it might be easier to get the code to compile but that doesnt count for much if it doesnt run right and is unmaintainable as always though your mileage may vary > > > > > Phill > > > -- > Justin > http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/ |
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