DP6 more strict?

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2015-10-06 17:52, Mark Wieder wrote:
> OK - playing Devil's Advocate here... I think one of the strengths of
> the xtalk language is that there may be many different paths to the
> solution of any given problem. I've learned a lot, and continue to do
> so, by seeing how other people approach issues differently from the
> way I would. So this artificial restriction cuts down on exploratory
> coding and places limits on the creative process of algorithm
> development.

This might well be true *if* there had been explicit decisions about the 
syntactic forms that were allowed. However, this is not the case - the 
fact the parser is lax is a side-effect of implementation rather than 
constructed intent.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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