Re: pl/pgsql: END verbosity

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 11:41, Neil Conway wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > But this doesn't make it easier to use - users don't just include those
> > who write it. The antecedent language of these, Ada, from which this
> > syntax comes, was explicitly designed to be reader-friendly as opposed to
> > writer-friendly, and this is a part of that.
>
> IMHO it is just needless verbiage that makes programs both harder to
> read *and* harder to write, albeit marginally so. I think there is a
> reason why Ada-style block terminators are in the minority among
> block-structured languages :)
>
> But obviously this is a matter of taste -- does anyone else like or
> dislike the current syntax?
>

-1 on the proposal to me... ambiguous END statements just looks like trouble
to me. I'd actually rather see you implement label...END LOOP label if you
felt like you had to change *something*.

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Robert Treat
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