Re:Dart language
by sambeau on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:52AM
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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.
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.