> The idea is simple: indentation as block style. Religious matter. Do as you wish, but expect flames.
> Another feature I hope to supply is bit arrays. ok > Bentley also will have nested functions, a Pascal-like for statement > (with variable steps instead of 1/-1), and a loop statement for > infinite loops. All languages have infinite loops, but most are just discreet about it. > To ensure programmers will use good style, Bentley will lack goto. To > break out of nested loops, you can use the breakout statement. This worries me. When I need to implement a finite state autonomon I usually use goto. For that purpose it is by far the clearest and least error prone method C offers. How do I do this in Bentley? Infinite loop, state variable and breakout? I would argue that that's less clear and unless your compiler is very clever it will generate worse assembly in this (common) case. > Finally, there will be two modes: hosted and standalone. The > standalone keyword changes this. Hosted mode can access print to > stdout and stderr, read from stdin, new, renew (like realloc), delete, > and a string type. I don't understand. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282
