Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax)

dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
6 Sep 90 10:20:39 GMT

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Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax) anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (1990-08-29)
Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax) liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (1990-09-03)
Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax) firth@sei.cmu.edu (1990-09-05)
Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax) lins@apple.com (Chuck Lins) (1990-09-05)
Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax) rob@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu (1990-09-05)
Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax) MERRIMAN@ccavax.camb.com (George Merriman -- CCA/NY) (1990-09-05)
Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax) dik@cwi.nl (1990-09-06)
Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax) dolf@idca.tds.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) (1990-09-15)
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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Keywords: parse, design
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
References: <4032@rtifs1.UUCP> <1990Aug29.140407.28378@maths.nott.ac.uk> <9009052108.AA15597@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 10:20:39 GMT

In article <9009052108.AA15597@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
[ about the convention to put semicolons in front of a statement ]
...
  > Comment2: I never bothered to find out who invented this convention, so I
  > can't give proper credit.


I believe it was Charles Lindsey in some issue of the Algol Bulletin.


An advantage is also that it clearly shows the pairs of opening and closing
delimiters of a sequence of statements. I.e. what is the closing brace
belonging to this opening brace?
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl
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