Re: L2R/R2L syntax

[Michael Lazzaro]

On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 09:51  PM, Luke Palmer wrote:

From: "Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Michael Lazzaro wrote:

So 'if' and friends are just (native) subroutines with prototypes like:

IIRC it's not that pretty, unfortunately, if you want to support this:

That is not a problem:

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Yeah, a three-argument form would easily allow chaining. But of course it still doesn't do the appropriate syntax checking (C<else> outside of C<if>, etc.). (It's only speculation on our part, of course, but Damian's response was quite intriguing -- he seemed to imply they had a solution that would work.)

And it still suffers from the semicolon problem, as Sean pointed out. A *big* semicolon problem (sigh).

MikeL