Coming from python I've found that julias's "end" statement doesn't bother me as much as I would have thought, but when I show some code to my python colleagues this really annoys them. But this got me thinking, what *is* the purpose of "end". Is it just a taste issue, a way to make parsing easier, something else?
My make believe answer that I found myself starting to make to my colleagues was that it was for ease of writing a parser, but then I wasn't sure how this squares with the fact that languages like python and haskell don't seem to have too much trouble w/out braces or end keywords. Just curious, dustin
