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From: sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
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Subject: Re: Problem trying to implement generics.
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:12:57 +0000 (UTC)
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Brian Rogoff (bpr@shell5.ba.best.com) wrote:
: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Robert A Duff wrote:
: > Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
: > 
: > > How about just using the {} and having an optional } if; syntax? 
: > 
: > I suppose it's just a matter of taste, but I find "} if;" distasteful.

: I was trying to capture the readability of the Ada end ...; constructions,
: which I miss in other languages, with some suitability as a very
: lightweight delimiter, useable even with inline function definitions. 
: Could be an overconstrained problem.

Isn't there a parsing issue, i.e. knowing whether a spurious }
belongs to, well, _some_ {, or "end if" belonging to "if", not
while say?


Georg