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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 10 May 1993 12:20:36 MST
Date: 9 May 93 06:17:47 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!ellis!goer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Organization: University of Chicago
Subject: Re: runtime debugger and the Icon fan club.
Message-Id: <1993May9.061747.2214@midway.uchicago.edu>
References: <1993May7.182643.26824@netlabs.com>, <1993May7.205551.1831@midway.uchicago.edu>, <SPACKMAN.93May8173827@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de>
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
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Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
stephen@acm.org writes:
>
>| 4) a * b
>| * b
>|
>| (4) is, of course, terrible programming style, if a * b * c is intended.
>
>I think the only reason you say this is that you are used to Icon.
Maybe. Think of it in intuitive terms, though. You want the ends of
your expressions to coincide with the ends of lines in many cases. In
those cases where you want to spread an expression across more than
one line, you want to end nonfinal lines with a token that could not
end an expression. Anyone having any familiarity with the language
will immediately understand what is going on.
--
-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer