You go on about the parser at length. Yet humans also have to read it. I think in many languages, statement terminators and other syntactic sugars are there for the humans.
For example, Python drives me a bit crazy, because you can't cut and paste code directly -- you have to worry about indentation, which may not be the same from source to destination (even within the same file). And revision control systems often merge things wrongly, and quietly ignore it. On the other hand, C's null-terminated strings are there for the executable, and seem to cause more problems than it solves. Where's the balance? Where do we draw the (new)line? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to marpa-parser+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
