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From: johnny@alibaba.UUCP (Lars Svensson)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Operator Precedence
Message-ID: <313@alibaba.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 12:10:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: alibaba.313
Posted: Mon Sep 23 12:10:33 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 04:10:52 EDT
References: <262@pedsgd.UUCP> <1502@umcp-cs.UUCP> <205@graffiti.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnny@alibaba.UUCP (Lars Svensson)
Organization: Dep. Applied Electronics Lund, Sweden
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In article <205@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I'd hate to program in that, but that's certainly an interesting idea. Then
>you could indicate compound and continued statements by indentation:
>
>	if a < b
>	  blah
>	  blah
>	else
>	  while not finished
>	    do this,
>	      and that
>	      and the other thing
>	    remember to reinit the loop!
>	and in any case...
>
>Any programming languages actually do this, by the way?

I think the British company Inmos uses this approach in occam,
a language tailored for their "transputer" micro.

	...{decvax, seismo}!mcvax!enea!alibaba!johnny
	(Lars Svensson, Dept. of Applied Electronics, Univ. of Lund, Sweden)