The `end` keyword closes blocks. Python uses indentation for this. In Julia indentation is not significant.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Dustin Lee <qhf...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
