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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:16:48 EST
- From: Paul_Abrahams@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu
- Message-ID: <529434@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu>
- Subject: Readability of semicolons
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- Ralph Griswold commented:
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- << With semicolons, programmers tend to string a bunch of statements
- together on one long line. This often makes programs harder to read than
- if they were written one statement per line with a more vertical layout.
- >>
-
- Yes, but you can also string a bunch of statements together on one line in
- Icon, or write statements one per line in some other language. So the
- Icon convention seems to me at least to be neutral with respect to this
- aspect of readability.
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- Paul Abrahams
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