Re: Is the dangling else a syntax bug?

On 3 Jul 2001 23:14:30 -0400, our moderator commented:
> [I think I've seen stats that users get statement separators wrong more
> often than statement terminators, but I can't dig them up at the moment.
> -John]


The matter-of-factual proof of this point (and IIRC - it's been a while) would
probably be the Pascal family of languages, which started out using statement
separators in their pure form, but later added additional grammar rules (like
allowing two separators follow each other with no statement in between) which
effectively allow the use of the separators as if they are terminators. The
reason I remember reading was that with this change the language would be
easier to use.
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Lars Duening; lars@bearnip.com
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