Re: indentation - unbalanced parentheses

James Giles wrote:

(snip on Pascal)

Pascal's labels were numeric because in those days statement
labels were numeric in nearly all languages. There was nothing
particularly unusual about that. (If I'm using lots of GOTOs,
which hasn't been common in my code for maybe 30 years,
I *prefer* numeric labels. They can be kept in ascending
order and therefore provide a clue to navagating the code.
Sure, you can keep alphabetic labels in alphabetic order
but how is that different than just using numbers?)

Algol has alphanumeric labels, and PL/I likely inherited
its alphanumeric labels from Algol. Fortran and BASIC with
numeric labels also would have been around. I don't know
how COBOL labels work, but it would seem reasonably close.

-- glen

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