why ; ?

[Matti Niemenmaa]

Janice Caron wrote:
> 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.

That's a flaw in the text editor, not his scheme.

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