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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104092047500.4414-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
Brian
> Rogoff says...
> >
> >On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, James Rogers wrote:
> >> Robert A Duff wrote:
> >> Even more interesting is the common practice among experienced C,
> >> C++, and Java programmers to comment the closing "}" with an
> >> indication of the block being closed:
> >>
> >>   } // end if
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >>   } // end getCount()
> >
> >That's a very good point. I use that practice in all of my code where the
> >length of a subprogram or conditional becomes a bit too long. I suppose,
> >using the kind of argument used to justify some Ada restrictions, that
> >someone could say that I should factor the code better. :-)
>
> I should point out that if your putatative language were to *require*
those
> endings somehow (eg: ditch the "// end" from the above constuctions), it
would
> annul most (if not all) of my complaints against using curly-braces.

Brian Rogoff suggested this:
procedure P(){
} P;

if (condition) {
} if;

I think it has the best of both worlds.