Re: Pondering what rationale behind record type

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On May 10, 7:50 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
>
> What is the reason to name statements?

Simple: to aid in readability.
I have a few rather deeply nested items where I'm tokenizing
PostScript
(due the rules of the language) and it is handy to have things like
-- Case C, When C '<' =>
Read_Character( C, Input );
HANDLE_LT: -- less than
if C = '<' then
 Return Dictionary_Type;
elsif C = '~' then
 Return String_Type;
else
 Unread_Character( C, Input );
 Return -- I forgot what the last case, just '<', was...
end if HANDLE_LT;

There's even a few in blocks where I handle things like
names ['identifiers'] vs. numbers; the PLRM defines a name
as a string of "regular characters which cannot be interpreted
as a string." This means that 23E4 is a number while 24F4 is
a name as are $4, 2i3, @, 2^4 and so forth.

It REALLY does help in sorting where you are in the decoding.