Walter Bright wrote:
Jérôme M. Berger wrote:Walter Bright wrote:Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbolsmostcertainly doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere youareSemicolonsarethesamethingAnd how it that any better:If;the;point;isnt;plain;obvious;from;the;above;fewer;symbols;most;certainly;does;NOT;mean;a;language;is;necessarily;easier;to;parse;Symbols;give;us; a;parsing;anchor;periods;in;a;sentence;arent;strictly;necessary;we;could;put;one;per;line;or;just;figure;out;where;they;belong;by;parsing;the;context; But;thats;fairly;obviously;much;harder;than;using;periods;to;follow;where;you;are;Semicolons;are;the;same;thing;I can read the ; version several times faster than the first.
And what about the spaces version? After all, nobody suggested removing *all* separation between statements like you did, just *redundant* separation.
Jerome -- mailto:jeber...@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeber...@jabber.fr
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