Affiliation:
1. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Abstract
A simple indentation rule, indent statements from the control statement they belong to, is sufficient to express a program's block structure without the use of compound statements or closing keywords. This is proven using a PASCAL-like language (using indentation instead of BEGIN-END blocks). Using indentation alone means a programmer need not give two independent specifications of a program's block structure, thus reducing effort and eliminating a potential source of errors.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Software
Cited by
10 articles.
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