Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax)

firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
5 Sep 90 11:37:01 GMT

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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Keywords: parse, design
Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
References: <9008202341.AA06543@llama.ingres.com> <4032@rtifs1.UUCP> <1990Aug29.140407.28378@maths.nott.ac.uk> <2753@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Sep 90 11:37:01 GMT

In article <2753@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes:
>The thing I hate most about Modula-2 is that it won't allow a semicolon on
>the last statement of a loop-body...


It will according to the syntax in PIM-2. Well, technically the semicolon is
followed by a null statement, but the effect is what you want.
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