Feature migration

[avi.e.gross at gmail.com]

Greg,

Yes, it is very possible from other sources. I doubt it hurts if a popular
language, albeit not compiled the same way, uses a feature.

I see it a bit as more an impact on things like compiler/interpreter design
in that once you see it can reasonably be implemented, some features look
doable.

I will say the exact methods and rules are different enough and interact
with things differently. As an example, you can use an "end" statement at
the end of a block to signal what is ending.

As regularly repeated. There is no one right way but there are ways
supported by the language you are in and others ways that are NOT supported.

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Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 5:47 PM
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Subject: Re: Feature migration

On 9/03/23 8:29 am, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
> They seem to be partially copying from python a
> feature that now appears everywhere but yet strive for some backwards
> compatibility. They simplified the heck out of all kinds of expressions by
> using INDENTATION.

It's possible this was at least parttly inspired by functional languages
such as Haskell. Haskell has always allowed indentation as one way of
expressing structure. Python wasn't the first language to use
indentation semantically.

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