Re: LOGO-L> Re: more thoughts on punctuation

[Brian Harvey <bh@CS.Berkeley.EDU>]

> Add this to the library [...]

The trouble with using actual Logo procedures to represent the
variables is that you lose the scope of local variables.  This
idea would work fine for globals, though.

One reason I've never been too worried about the special-formness
of TO is that there's also DEFINE, which serves the same purpose
but follows ordinary Logo syntax rules.  But as for TO, I don't
think it'd hurt anything to make the colons optional, or even
allow quotes as an alternative, since the existing notation is
already such a special case.
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