Walter Bright: > Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > > Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbolsmostcertainly > doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus > aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould > putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext > Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere > youareSemicolonsarethesamething > > (Fixed that for you!)
Having no spaces is not comparable to having no semicolons, because newlines are kept. Better to have a little more complex parser than putting the burden of adding the correct semicolons on the programmers. Bye, bearophile
