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Re: LFM + LFSP = LFE?




On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 08:57 AM, David Farber wrote:

> At 12:48 AM 6/16/2003 -0700, Ryan Davis wrote:
>>> -- perlish options to put keywords in different places
>>>    for conditionals (e.g. "foo() if /bar/")
>>
>> Personally, I like this. It allows for more English like constructs.
>> But that is just my personal taste. If I could get rid of it, it would
>> make my job of converting the ruby grammar easier. :)
>
> Smalltalk, of course, allows you to do this without any extra 
> syntax--one of the nice benefits of having the control constructs 
> written /in/ the languge itself.

Working on it... Give me time. :)