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Scope delimiters, such as BEGIN‐END or DO‐END, are used in many programming languages, but they can lengthen and clutter a program listing. This paper provides experimental evidence that ENDIF or ENDWHILE statement terminators make for easier to comprehend programs than BEGIN‐END pairs surrounding compound statements.
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Sykes et al. (1983) studied this question.
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