Re: Make awk more friendly to multiline function declaration

[Neil R. Ormos]

Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> has asked about
> changing gawk's grammar to permit newlines
> between parameter names and commas.

Missing from this discussion has been serious consideration of whether Gawk 
users might benefit from the proposed relaxation of the grammer.

The original poster did not describe any benefits other than relief from what 
the poster views as an artificial restriction.

It might be helfpul to understand how the original poster believes the proposal 
would have some material effect in making it easier to write Gawk programs or 
making the language easier to learn and remember.  Does the existing rule 
impose some unreasonable burden on a particular class of users that relaxing 
the grammar would alleviate?