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== Definition == [[Peter Landin]], in his 1966 article "[[The Next 700 Programming Languages]]", defined the off-side rule thus: "Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Landin |first1=P. J. |author1-link=Peter Landin |date=March 1966 |title=The next 700 programming languages |doi=10.1145/365230.365257 |journal=[[Communications of the ACM]] |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=157β166 |s2cid=13409665 |url=http://fsl.cs.uiuc.edu/images/e/ef/P157-landin.pdf}}</ref>
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