Re: [tlug] What if php were british?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Jim Breen writes:

 > BTW, if a declarative language such as PHP and its many predecessors
 > were Japanese, how would a structure such as "if (..) {..} else {..}" be formed?

There wouldn't be one, only a case statement from Kansai.

Of course, indentation would be the same as in Hebrew: counted from
the right margin, instead of the wrong one, although for syntactic
rather than lexical reasons.