Thanks. I should probably have been more clear. I understand what it *is* doing. I'm just curious if there was a reason besides "taste" to choose that over whitespace significance.
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 12:55:07 PM UTC-6, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > 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<javascript:> > > 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 >> > >
