Re: Chinese Syntax

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From: Mark McIntyre (markmcintyre_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 23:24:00 +0100

On Thu, 27 May 2004 21:11:28 +0100, in comp.lang.c , C# Learner
<csharp@learner.here> wrote:

>Mark McIntyre wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I'll bite. Why on earth do you consider this in any way an
>> improvement? What difference does it make to anything?
>
>I believe that it'd improve code readability.

I disagree. The delimiter helps mark the ends of the various parts of the
statement. With only whitespace to work with, compound statements become
almost impossible to correctly read.

>Have you noticed how, in
>langauges which use such syntax,
....
>they use spaces because of the fact that parentheses are used both
>in test conditions and function calls. As far as I see, when doing so,
>they're just attempting to work around a syntactical design flaw of the
>language.

Gonads. This is nothing more than a style thing. French people put two
spaces after a full stop. English people don't. Same idea. 

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