A syntax idea for one-liners

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Paddy McCarthy wrote:
>   * Use character ':' for one extra level of indentation.
>   * Use character ';' to separate statements at the same level of
> indentation.
>   * Use another character, (or character pair), to denote one level of
> de-dent.
> 
> As you can see, I couldn't think of the last character to use :-)

Obviously it should be the one that looks like two
commas one above the other. Inexplicably, it seems to
have been omitted from all current character sets, though.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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