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Re:Dart language by surrealize on Monday October 10, 2011 @04:59AM (#3092944)
For human readers we use periods, not line breaks.
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Re:Dart language by sambeau on Monday October 10, 2011 @06:24AM (#3093134)
Code is more like poetry.
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Re:Dart language by sambeau on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:52AM (#3093364)
That was not a flippant remark.

Lines of code are clauses not sentences. This is also true of poetry.

A sentence is more akin to a stanza in poetry, and a function in code.

While I could entertain an argument for lines ending in commas and for functions to end with periods there is no reasonable argument for lines to end with periods (is there a language where a line is equal to a function?).

APL, and to some degree Perl, are examples of languages where to you might consider a period half-way through a line.

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Re:Dart language by secoif on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:57AM (#3093374)
The context is programming, not writing.
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