From: "Andrew Wozniewicz" 
Newsgroups: sdforum.want
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: Experimenting with syntax: Pascal-like

Juanca,

> Verbosity is bad, but you want consistency.
> Open "var" and "const" blocks are inconsistent.

So what about a compromise: type, var and cost are statements and can only introduce a single declaration (even though the declaration may introduce several identifiers) and therefore do NOT require the terminating END:

var I, J, K: Integer;
var S;

const PI = 3.14;
const E, NatLogBase: Float = 2.72;

On the other hand, types, variables, an constants are reserved words tht introduce blocks of declarations, and thus require the terminating END:

variables
  K, L, M: Integer;
  T;
  M, N, P: Float;
end;

-Andrew