Re: Gripe

From: Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:51:20 +0000
Subject: Re: Gripe
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--- Curt Zirzow <php-general@zirzow.dyndns.org> wrote: > * Thus wrote Chris W. Parker (cparker@swatgear.com): > > Chris Shiflett <mailto:shiflett@php.net> > > on Friday, August 29, 2003 2:16 PM said: > > > > > if ($foo) { if ($bar) echo 'blah'; else { echo 'else'; } > > > ^ ^ ^ > > > Where is the missing brace? :-) | | > > | | | > > Here --------+----------------------+---------------------/ > | | > Or Here -----+----------------------/ > | > Or Here -----/ I think Curt got my point the best. :-) The point is that you can't tell where I forgot the brace without making assumptions about what I wanted to do. If a human can't tell whether there is a missing brace until the very end, a human can't write software that does either. Chris ===== Become a better Web developer with the HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/

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