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[QUOTE="C# Learner, post: 1712071"]
I believe that I appreciate the reasons for these features.  What I'm 
saying is that I think that there are better (in terms of allowing the 
user of the language to write readable code) alternatives that could 
have been implemented instead.

a) Valid C syntax:

if (foo &&
         bar) {
         foobar();
     }

b) Similar code to the above but using my suggested syntax changes:

if foo &&
        bar:
         foobar();

Why wouldn't (b) be feasible here?

Everything from 'if' to ':' is considered the condition.  After the 
newline after ':', whitespace is required to form a code block.

The only way in which they seem odd to me is that they make code much 
less readable than it could be, in my opinion.

Okay, if you don't agree with the 'if'..':' idea, then how about 
changing the parentheses required for test conditions for a different 
pair of characters?  An ideal pair would be a pair that isn't used 
elsewhere in the language, for readability's sake.

My point is that a different construct could be substituted in each case.

So those who invented C's syntax are necessarily brighter than those who 
invented, say, Python's syntax?

I honestly wonder what that reason is.

Regards
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