Curly bracket programming language: Difference between revisions

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== Statements and blocks ==

The name derives from the common syntax of the languages, where blocks of statements are enclosed in curly braces or brackets. For example (using [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]]/[[Eric Allman|Allman]] [[indent style]], one of many stylistic ways to format a program):

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

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'''}'''

Languages in this family are sometimes referred to as '''C-style''', because they tend to have syntax that is strongly influenced by [[C syntax|C's syntax]]. Beside the curly brackets, they often inherit other syntactic features, such as using the semicolon as a statement terminator (not as a separator), and the three-part "for" statement syntax as shown above.

Generally, these languages are also considered "free-form languages", meaning that the compiler considers all whitespace to be the same as one blank space, much like [[HTML]]. Considering that, the above code ''could'' be written: