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- From: mgrice@iastate.edu (Matt Grice)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 02:53:30 GMT
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Message-ID: <3169d0b6.26007315@news>
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- andyc@procom.com (Andy Ho-Fan Chan) wrote:
-
- >In article <j-jahnke-0604960016160001@ntcs-ip8.uchicago.edu>, j-jahnke@uchicago.edu (Jerome Jahnke) wrote:
- >
- >>And if you think about it, it is a lot easier to find a BEGIN and END in a
- >>chunk of code than a { and }. They are just bigger and easier to spot.
- >>Which is why many code editors color the code so you can find things like
- >>braces and what nots.
- >
- >Well, I like the '{' and '}' so much since it needs least typing. Also, it
- >can fasten the compile time too.
- >
- Hmm.. Is that why C and C++ compilers are so fast? :)
-
- Seriously, I would be hard pressed to name another aspect of a
- language that would have LESS effect on compile time than { and }
- versus begin and end.
-
- -Matt
-