Proposal for a scientific look at C style choices

[Conor O'Neill]

In article <1046 at ns.UUCP> ddb at ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
>I value conservation of vertical space highly, but I don't have the
>rule about braces you propose.  I tend to agree with the poster who
>said that braces are necessary only because the compiler isn't smart
>enough to interpret block structure from the indentation.  Has anybody
>played with such a compiler, by the way?  Or a checker for C which

The OCCAM language relies entirely on indentation for its block
structure.  Each level of indentation MUST be 2 spaces.
(Since OCCAM allows nested functions, etc, any more would push everything
off the right hand side).
I find this very useable, especially when combined with a folding editor,
and it makes it very easy to see the block structure.
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Conor O'Neill, Software Group, INMOS Ltd. 
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