On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > > > > Not at all; I certainly don't indent them, and I'm a fanatical > > > indenter. > > > > > > Agreed. I really can't understand why some people indent like this: > > if ... > > then > > begin > > ... > > end > > else > > if > > ... > > lol - thats not what I meant. If you want readable code you indent inside the > begin..end blocks ergo the begin..end syntax becomes redundant cause its the > indentation that provides the visual cue. Visual, yes. But not for the compiler: it folds whitespace. The compiler NEEDS the begin...end to check your syntax. How is it supposed to know where a stament block begins/ends ? Based on indendation alone ? That would not be Pascal... Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
