From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b6e97963d32ee242 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-24 22:42:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!news.stealth.net news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate References: <254c16a.0305210726.485125de@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1JYza.7047$ca5.5487@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 05:42:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.146.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1053841341 162.84.146.112 (Sun, 25 May 2003 01:42:21 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 01:42:21 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37746 Date: 2003-05-25T05:42:21+00:00 List-Id: Steve wrote: > Pascal and C/C++ have two forms of "if" statements, one where the "if" is > followed by a single line, the other where the "if" is followed by a block. C and C++ have one form of "if" statement, whose syntax is if ( ) [ else ] (where the () are literal but the [] indicate optional :-)