[Coco] History repeats itself

[Wayne Campbell]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 5:35 PM, James Jones <jejones3141 at gmail.com> wrote:

...
>


> In a procedure that included EXITIF statements, I did not originally follow
> the indentation that BASIC09 imposes on its source listings.
>
> In the revision, I will keep to the way BASIC09 does it, because I know
> better now.
>
> One thing about the way Basic09 formats listings threw me for the longest
time, until I realized that it was being done in order to let the
programmer know what level it applied to. That is the EXITIF/ENDEXIT
statements. Follow:

REPEAT

     a:=a+1
     ...

EXITIF <expression>
     ...
ENDEXIT

     ...

UNTIL <expression>

I always felt like the EXITIF and ENDEXIT should be indented. Then one day
I realized it was this way so I would know that the EXITIF applied to the
REPEAT, and not something else inside the loop. While I can appreciate it
now, it drove me batty for years.

Recently, I've taken up the Go programming language.


What I am hearing makes me like this language, but I am not yet ready to
tackle learning another language.

Wayne

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