why ; ?

[Janice Caron]

On 09/05/2008, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>  Plus, that then opens up the ability to do something like this:
>
>  while (a)
>   if (b)
>     c;
>     d;
>   fi // Or _if, or something else
>  wend // or _while, or something else

But my text editor can do bracket matching. With one keystroke, I can
jump from an opening brace to the matching closing brace, or vice
versa, and /know/ that all is correctly matched (or easily fix the
problem if not).

My text editor, however, cannot do if-to-fi matching. Under your
scheme, I'd be giving up a valuable piece of functionality.