Re: The semicolon habit (was: Q: Definition of a scripting lang.)

ludemann@netcom.com (Peter Ludemann) writes about semicolon-free syntaxes:
>Indeed: I can think of 3 examples.


Here is a fourth: throw away the semicolons in Pascal, and the
only ambiguity is that you can't always see where the empty statements are.
This can easily be cured by adding a visible representation [such as ";"]
of such statements.


Whether this is a Good Thing from the point of view of the poor
programmer trying to make sense of the error messages coming from the
compiler is quite another matter.


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Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk
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