David Wilson wrote:
Jorge ChB wrote:So the following would be properly "bracketed" by the offside rule: if condition1 or condition2 then foo blah blah else bar blah nextstatement ...Python works it this way too...As does Occam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_programming_language which was the first language I came across with this feature.
I wonder if there is a connection with SASL, the applicative language invented by David Turner of St. Andrews, and my first exposure to the offside rule. SASL is quite LISP-like in the density of braketing, but actual brackets are almost totally obviated by the off-side rule. -michael Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."