On 07/02/2012 08:22 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Agreed. I wish we had one language. One which had syntactical
> directives for scoping, blocks, assignments, etc, etc...
>
> BLOCK_INDENT_MARKER -> \t
> BLOCK_DEDENT_MARKER -> \n
> STATEMENT_TERMINATOR -> \n
> ASSIGNMENT_OPERATOR -> :=
> CONDITIONAL_IF_SPELLING -> IF
> CONDITIONAL_ELSE_SPELLING -> EL
> ...
You must be joking.
In C, for example, it is possible to "create your own language" by going
#define IF(cond) if (cond) {
#define ELSE } else {
#define ELIF(cond) } else if (cond) {
#define ENDIF }
and so on. There's a reason nobody does it.
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