Free-form language

In computer programming, a free-form language is a programming language in which the positioning of characters on the page in program text is insignificant. Program text does not need to be placed in specific columns as on old punched card systems, and frequently ends of lines are insignificant. Whitespace characters are used only to delimit tokens, and have no other significance. Most free-form languages descend from ALGOL, including C, Pascal, and Perl. Lisp languages are free-form, although they do not descend from ALGOL. Rexx is mostly free-form, though in some cases whitespace characters are concatenation operators. SQL, though not a full programming language, is also free-form. Most free-form languages are also structured programming languages, which is sometimes thought to go along with the free-form syntax: Earlier imperative programming languages such as Fortran 77 used particular columns for line numbers, which many structured languages do not use or need. Structured languages exist which are not free-form, such as ABC, Curry, Haskell, Python and others. Many of these use some variant of the off-side rule, in which indentation, rather than keywords or braces, is used to group blocks of code.

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Indentation comme syntaxe

Un langage de programmation utilise l'indentation comme syntaxe si une zone de code indentée délimite un bloc. Un bloc est une entité programmatique qui délimite une portée. Peter J. Landin a inventé le concept de l'indentation comme syntaxe et créé le terme anglais off-side rule qui le désigne en 1966. Il constitue une alternative au . L'exemple qui suit est un exemple de bloc en Python (noter les deux points obligatoires - Ils sont des marqueurs syntaxiques qui facilitent la lecture) : def fib(n): if n

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Whitespace character

In computer programming, whitespace is any character or series of characters that represent horizontal or vertical space in typography. When rendered, a whitespace character does not correspond to a visible mark, but typically does occupy an area on a page. For example, the common whitespace symbol (also ASCII 32) represents a blank space punctuation character in text, used as a word divider in Western scripts. With many keyboard layouts, a whitespace character may be entered by pressing .

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