Re: 6502 illegal opcodes questions

[Kent Friis <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

Den Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:53:25 -0700 skrev Michael J. Mahon:
>
> Many years later, I think that the "offside rule" for delimiting
> blocks simply by indentation is a very nice approach.  Why on
> earth should white space, the most significant characteristic of
> text to the human eye, be ignored by most programming languages?

For the same reason that comments, the most human readable text found
in a program, are ignored by the programming language. Whitespace is
an important part of making the program more readable.

A programming language that prevents me to use white space to make
code readable (because that would change what the code does) is just
as bad as one that prevents me from writing a comment where needed
(Actually, Visual Basic .NET does that in certain places. Yuck).

/Kent
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