[erlang-questions] Newbie question about line endings Thu Dec 22
14:30:59 CET 2011 On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:21 PM, August
Schwartzwald < > I started to learn Erlang about a month ago. I
really like it and think > that with some more practice it will
become a both unique and powerful tool > in my growing box of
programming languages. However, there is one thing > about it
that I find extremely annoying: The line endings. > I currently
know 5 programing languages, they have either 0 (python) or 1 >
way to end lines (usually the ';' character). Erlang totally
stands out > here and requires that lines are ended in one of 4
different ways. > Did some googling without finding any good
reason to why the language > works in this way. Can anyone here
explain this? There is no such ting as a "Line" in Erlang.
Everything is a "form" so there are no line ending only form
endings. A form is ended by a top-level "dot Dot is a period "."
white space is a blank,tab,newline or comment. Comments start
with "%" and are termina