syntax difference

[Gregory Ewing]

  To: Bart
From: "Gregory Ewing" <gregory.ewing at 1:261/38.remove-ij1-this>

  To: Bart
From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>

Bart wrote:
> But 40 years
> ago it was just 'readln a,b,c'; it was just taken for granted.

The problem with something like that is that it's really only useful for
throwaway code. For any serious application, you need to deal with the
possibility of malformed input, producing helpful diagnostics, etc. And often
the input isn't going to be in such a uniform format that you know exactly what
 to expect next.

So it's debable whether it's a good idea to put something with such limited
applicability into the core language or standard library.

Handling input well is fundamentally much more complicated than producing
output. I don't think this is as "basic" as you make out.

--
Greg

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