I'm brand new to all of this but it sounds a little confusing to me...
C, C++, Java all have the familiar
for (;;)
Python has
for var in list
Perl has
foreach $var (list) { statement }
for (;;)
PHP has
foreach (array_expression as $value) statement
for (;;)
And you guys want to create *another* permutation?
Sounds weird to me.
Brendan.
Terence Parr wrote:
>
> Monday, October 02, 2000, Jason van Zyl hath spoken:
> > I wanted to change the syntax of directives from say
>
> > #foreach $element in $list
>
> > to
>
> > #foreach ($element in $list)
>
> > so I cleanly know what the elements of a directive
> > are.
>
> That is entirely appropriate if the stuff inside can be arbitrarily
> long and complicated. The rule of thumb is basically, can a dumb
> lexer "grep" all of this out. If not, it's probably too complicated
> (heck, even humans have trouble when it's hard to lex).
>
> C, C++ and Java do this though I'm not sure for the same reason. At
> the least, it will be familiar. Another rule of thumb is to reduce
> "astonishment" by not inventing new syntax unless you mean it to mean
> something else or you're embedding somewhere that makes it impractical
> to keep familiar syntax. So, again (...) is good.
>
> +1 vote from Terence :)
>
> Terence
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