Curly bracket programming language: Difference between revisions

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'''Curly brace''' or '''bracket''' [[programming language]]s are those which use [[balance]]d [[Bracket|bracket]]s ('''{''' and '''}''', also known as "brace brackets" or simply "braces") to make [[block (programming)|block]]s in their [[syntax]] or [[formal grammar]], mainly due to being [[C programming language|C]]-influenced.

== Statements and blocks ==

The name derives from the common syntax of the languages, where blocks of statements[[statement (programming)|statement]]s are enclosed in curly 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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but this is not recommended, as it becomes nearly impossible for a person to read after the program grows beyond a few statements.

There are many other ways to identify statement blocks, such as ending keywords that may match beginning keywords (in [[Ada programming language|Ada]], [[Pascal programming language|Pascal]], [[REXX]], and [[Visual Basic]]), the [[Off-side rule]] of indentation (in [[Python programming language|Python]]), or other symbols such as parentheses (in [[Lisp]]).

=== Loops ===