Для for next явно логичнее end for, но в общем да, товарищ дело говорит
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As for verbose, I'm used to Octave where you also have the option of the even longer endif, endfor, endwhile, endswitch, and endfunction, which I find very handy for figuring out what level you're at in long functions. I'm actually still writing end #if in my Julia code (I'll probably get over it at some point).
On the other hand, Julia allows you to write for i=1:n, j=1:n, k=1:n; ... end which is nicely terse, and I use it so often that I really miss it in Octave.
Jamie