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From: haahr@netcom.com (Paul Haahr)
Subject: Re: More Dylan sytax oddities
In-Reply-To: phinely@uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu's message of Sat, 2 Sep 1995 15:59:37 GMT
To: phinely@uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu (Peter Hinely)
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> I have some more questions about Dylan's syntax. [...]
> 
>   define method my-method (x)
>     x;
>   end method
> 
>   local method my-method (x)
>     x;
>   end;
> 
> [...]
> Also the statments that end the methods are not the same.
>    "end method" vs. "end;"

The word ``method'' is optional but permitted after ``end'' in both
cases.  I don't see what the problem is.
