# Syntax suggestion: end\<control\>

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/syntax-suggestion-end-control/8605>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [January 26, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/syntax-suggestion-end-control/8605 "2018-01-26T00:26:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/syntax-suggestion-end-control/8605/9 "2018-01-26T16:14:29Z")

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What’s the cost? I think I’d disagree with just about every one of your items on that bulleted list — sure, none of them are huge costs, but they are definitely costs none-the-less.

The biggest cost, though? Developer time. Not only would this cost the time to implement it in base Julia itself, but it’d also require every single Julia grammar file to be updated for proper highlighting and indentation. And then there’d be the “forever” cost of folks who believe that this is the “better” way of spelling `end` slowly converting `end`s to `endif`s, `endwhile`s, and `endbegins` because “it’s safer” throughout the ecosystem.

Plus that last one, `endbegin` would just be bizarre.

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