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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:50:01 +0100
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 2024-08-29 12:49, Bart wrote:
>
>> Without the constraints imposed by the language, I could just write it as:
>>      if a == b:
>>          s1
>> RETURN
>>          s2
>>          s3
>> NOW it stands out!
>
> In Ada I use indentation for the purpose:
>
> if A = B then  -- This I will remove later
>   s1;
> end if;
>       s2;
>       s3;
>
> I remember FORTRAN in its glory days had D-comments. In the first column
> the letter D meant a conditional, compiled in the debug mode, ignored
> otherwise.

That was a non-standard extension, so it was not really part of FORTRAN
but just some FORTRAN implementations.  (The ones I have used didn't
have that, for example.)

-- 
Ben.