Re: Is the dangling else a syntax bug?

lars@bearnip.com (Lars Duening) wrote:


> 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.


A minor point, but the only rule 'added' is that statements are
optional - and hence any amount of semicolons can be inserted between
statements.


-- Barry


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