punctuation (was Re: Eliminating assignments and variable syntax (accessors))

Patrick Logan patrickl at gemstone.com
Wed Aug 4 20:13:00 UTC 1999


Alan Knight writes:
 > 
 > Now, I wouldn't want to see code ending in 
 >        ].].].

 > so I'm willing to concede that "]" should also be treated as a
 > statement terminator, but I think on the whole we'd be better off
 > with "." as a terminator rather than a separator.

I don't understand Alan's suggestion about "]". Wouldn't that conflict
with the following expressions?

e.g.

    [1] value

and

    someBoolean ifTrue: [1] ifFalse: [2]

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