Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:47:40 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 27.02.2025 09:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:34:24 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
 

From the "commercial world" I have only Cobol, PL/1, Fortran in mind;
I seem to recall none of them working with begin/end parenthesis or
braces.

 
PL/I had DO ... END and BEGIN ... END, depending on whether you wanted
a new block scope or not. Fortran I have mentioned elsewhere.

 
I may have used misleading wording; I was replying to John's "languages
[...] that used braces".

Yeah, I know you meant. I don’t really see any important difference (other
than terseness) between different kinds of statement bracketing symbols,
whether they be (semi)readable syntax words or special sequences of
nonalphabetic characters.