Re: Use of punctuation in a language?

Derk Gwen <derkgwen@HotPOP.com>
1 Nov 2003 12:00:35 -0500

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From: Derk Gwen <derkgwen@HotPOP.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 1 Nov 2003 12:00:35 -0500
Organization: Quick STOP Groceries
References: 03-10-129
Keywords: syntax, design
Posted-Date: 01 Nov 2003 12:00:35 EST

Herbert <hsauro@cs.caltech.edu> wrote:
# Does anyone have any comments on the use of punctucation is a
# language, eg, compare the following two approaches?
#
# a = 3.4; b = 6.7;
#
# or
#
# a = 3.4 b = 6.7
#
# which is better, ease of reading for humans, issues regarding design
# of compilers (eg the punctuation-less version requires
# look-ahead?). Perhaps lack of punctuation is a bad language design?


Cobol permits this style of coding in many cases. You could try finding
reports on Cobol usage or poll comp.lang.cobol.


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