questions from using lint
D Gary Grady
dgary at ecsvax.UUCP
Tue May 13 03:26:48 AEST 1986
In article <797 at bentley.UUCP> kwh at bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
>Yet another convention, not endorsed by any language I know, is to dispense
>with the braces and let the indentation alone tell the compiler how to
>interpret the program. (I came up with this idea after an argument on the
>"correct" place to put the braces.)
As several people have pointed out, this convention is used in some
languages. I just wanted to point out an instance no one has mentioned
yet: IBM's ISPF, a mainframe 3270 screen management package that
allows you to define a "panel" with associated procedural information.
You find things in the oddest places...
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D Gary Grady
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