Python started in 1990 and Ruby started in 1995. Java started in 1996; C# in 2000; Go in 2010. These languages all use braces and are more recent than Python and Ruby. ALGOL 60, where 60 stands for 1960, didn't use braces either.
To me, that's basically a fashion point. Given that this doesn't seem to open any new possibility over what we have, I wouldn't be in favor of it. > Le 19 déc. 2015 à 20:39:06, Alexander Regueiro via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Has anyone considered removing braces from the Swift language? The main > alternative would be indentation-based scoping like in Python or Ruby. There > already seems to be a general emphasis on conciseness, lack of redundancy, > and a modern syntax. e.g. semicolons are not required for single-line > statements; brackets have been removed from if/for/while expressions, > compared to C-style syntax. So, why not go the whole way in breaking the > C-style connection? The present syntax seems to be shunning C, but only > slightly. > > Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
