16 Jan
2001
16 Jan
'01
7:38 p.m.
Erik Meijer said:
Not many other imperative languages have statements as first class citizens.
I don't have the details here (e.g., an Algol 68 report), but Michael Scott reports in his "Programming Language Pragmatics" text (p. 279) that: "Algol 68 [allows], in essence, indexing into an array of statements, but the syntax is rather cumbersome." This is in reference to historical variations on switch-like statements (and consistent with a running theme, typical in PL texts, about the extremes of orthogonality found in Algol 68). -- Fritz Ruehr fruehr@willamette.edu