Re: someone there?

In article <533m7jF1k5o96U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Andreas Bogk <andreas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> The current Dylan syntax consumes a lot of vertical space due to the
> "end" statements, I don't like that.

I'd love to see Dylan changed to make end statements optional to sup****t 
a syntax more like Python's.

As far as I am aware it is an objective fact of typography that "end", 
")" and "}" all add visual noise and are unnecessary for humans to 
correctly read and write code when line breaks and indenting are 
available. For historical reasons, most popular languages ignore 
whitespace and require explicit tokens to end scopes, but humans do not 
require this solution.

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