Re:Minimalism in programming language design
by Rochus on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:27AM
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Upper case keywords are not removed. You can continue to use the old syntax, so the code looks like it came straight out of the sixties, see https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/15/examples-with-tradi.... Each valid Oberon, Oberon-07 or Oberon-2 program is a valid Oberon+ program. The lexer checks whether module is written in upper or lower case and then switches the syntax. Only a few people still prefer the old syntax. What do you dislike about begin/end?
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Re:Minimalism in programming language design
by webmobdev on Thursday May 26, 2022 @07:56AM
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Thanks for the clarification. It would also be helpful if the editor also included a setting to automatically capitalise the keywords and make the developer's job easier. And no, I don't dislike begin / end as they too improve readability (I was just pointing out that they are also a language design feature to increase readability). Modern editors though should anyway be offering to auto-complete it so that typing these doesn't become tedious.