Off-side rule
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- This article is about the off-side rule in programming. For other meanings, see offside.
A program is said to adhere to the off-side rule if in which, the scope of declarations (a block) is expressed by their indentation.
It is said of programming languages, like:
Definition
"Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token
on the previous line is taken to be the start
of a new declaration."
--P.J. Landin "The Next 700 Programming Languages"
CACM vol 9 pp157-165, March 1966
Code Examples
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External links
- Off-side rule from FOLDOC (http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?off-side+rule)