Re: [pure-lang-users] when and with syntax

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Eddie Rucker wrote:
> Personally, I prefer 'when end' to 'when begin end.'

Me too, obviously. :) Pascal's begin ... end goes back to Algol, but 
Wirth himself later realized that properly bracketed statements are 
better and more economic, so that's what Modula and Oberon have.

> However, 'when {}' isn't bad but I figure you'll use '{}' for streams.

Either that, or structs, or generalized list comprehensions. In any case 
it seems like a good idea to keep {} unused for now.

Albert

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