RE: (no subject)

["Njal Fisketjon" <n.f@xxxxxxx>]

Scott Klement wrote:

> You'd still need something to delimit the end of a condition expression
> on your if statement.   Either you'd need to put parenthesis around
> the expression (like you do in C) or you'd need to put a word there
> (BASIC uses the word 'then')  or you'd need to say that the condition
> ends at the end of this source record, or something along those
> lines...  the point is, you need SOMETHING.
>
> Using a continuation character, as you suggest, would work, but only if
> you didn't allow multiple statements on the same line.

I would not allow multiple statements on one line, since I consider that
"bad habit" and a relic from the old Basic days og the VIC-20 and C-64 where
you gained speed and saved space (and needed to!).

There's no need to use multiple statements on the same line, and it doesn't
improve readability either (IMO).

> But, at any rate, this issue was throroughly beat into the ground BEFORE
> the new compiler was released.   Now that it has been, there's little
> point in arguing it further.  It's done.   Either use it and learn to
> like it, or keep using the fixed-format lines.  It can't be changed.

Seems like I have to make a pre-processor (like I've done for MI) to add the
semicolons before compilation.

IBM *could* make the format a compile-option if they "wanted" to(ie was
pressed repeatedly).

BTW, I never liked the RLU either. :)