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Re: Question regarding Mathematica's treatment of whitespace

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• Subject: [mg61869] Re: Question regarding Mathematica's treatment of whitespace
• From: carlos at colorado.edu
• Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 04:09:41 -0500 (EST)
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Mathematica should mandate ; as terminator of any expression,
as in C.   Then problems such as the one noted by the OP
would disappear: with CR/LF uniformly ignored source interpretation
becomes more linebreak independent.

Also the common warning about "this statement
will be interpreted as implicit  multiplication" in modules, with
consequent risk of infinite recursion, would go away.

To get an expression printed  a short  construct  such as

       a = Sin[Pi/2]   >>;

which outputs "a=1" could be introduced to avoid the
verbosity of Print.  This could be easily edited in and out in
module debugging.

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  • Re: Re: Question regarding Mathematica's treatment of whitespace
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