layout rule infelicity

Ketil Z. Malde ketil@ii.uib.no
30 May 2002 12:59:36 +0200


Martin Odersky <martin.odersky@epfl.ch> writes:

> Redundancy maybe? What's wrong in having both layout and punctuation?

Short answer: What's wrong with it is that humans use layout to infer
the semantic meaning, compilers use punctuation.  Thus it's not really
redundancy. 

-kzm
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