Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On 02.03.2025 17:32, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 01.03.2025 23:20, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 21:32:59 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>

My guess is that this form is just an informal syntax mimicking Perl's
function parameter passing ...

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The idea of passing arguments by keyword predates Perl.

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That wouldn't surprise me. - I know it from Perl. - Which other
(earlier) languages do you have in mind? - What's its origin?

 
VAX-11 Pascal supported it (and a form of comment that you would dislike).

Interesting. (I didn't know that DEC supported a Pascal dialect.)

WRT that comment; I think that {...} is not worse than the (*...*)
variant we often see. - The main point is, though, how it fits in
the language. - "C" is already full of punctuation characters, and
especially the '*' is existing in many contexts. Pascal, OTOH, is
very text-biased; so its two comment variants don't annoy [me] too
much. (The "open end" comment property is not dominating here.)

 
  Total_memory := 0;
  REPEAT
    Ss_status := $GETJPI( PIDADR := Wild_pid, EFN := 4, ITMLST := Jpi_list );
    IF ODD( Ss_status ) AND (Terminal_len <> 0) THEN
    BEGIN
      $WAITFR( 4 );                     { Wait for asynch stuff to return }
 

What's that '$' preceding the function names? (I don't recall that
from the Pascal standard or from the versions I programmed with.)

Janis