On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Daniel Andor wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 April 2003 8:04 pm, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > If we're going to be introducing gratuitous backwards incompatiblities,
> > can we please do it for something usefull?  Like say replacing begin/end
> > with { and }.  
> 
> If I may be a beginner here: how does "begin ... end" differ from "( ... )"?  
> In practice I've found them to be interchangable, but that could just be an 
> accident.

At the linguistic level, not at all.  At the text editor level, it's 
easier in vi to jump to match braces than matching begin/ends.

Brian


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