== Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article > Rioshin an'Harthen wrote: > > "Walter Bright" <[email protected]> kirjoitti viestissä > >> I doubt anyone types { } by accident. > > > > I have a habit of indenting the semicolon on the following line, if I > > wanted a blank statement, like > > > > for (...; ...; ...) > > ; > > > > Much clearer in my opinion than having it on the same line as the for > > construct. > Yes, that's ok, too. The only issue with it as far as working it into > the language goes is then the parser and lexer do not have a clean > separation - whitespace has meaning in one case.
Sounds like HTTP/HTML. The best I've come up with so far for parsing that stuff is to have the lexer actually return tokens representing whitespace in some instances. It's totally ridiculous.
