On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:23:39PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > So let's say these languages share a few typical features: instructions > > go across lines and they terminate with ';' (introduced by Algol60 I think), > > they use ':=' for the assignment instruction, they use the same words to > > denote basic types (Boolean, Integer, Natural), and they're wordy.
:= isn't that bad an idea. Heck, adding it to C17 could work -- C syntax is not set in stone, just like it imported // comments from C++. > And the now so-called Pascal-like languages sharply distinguish > between expressions and statements. Statements cannot appear within > expresssions. This is purely a syntactic restriction, because it's OK > for an expression to call a procedure that contains statements. I'm annoyed that C disallows: if (foo) bar, break; On the other hand, for most statements this works: return fprintf(stderr, "meow\n"), 1; or even (in a void function) return fprintf(stderr, "meow\n"), (void)0; -- An imaginary friend squared is a real enemy. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng