Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA From: ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Algol-style vs C-style semicolons - (nf) Message-ID: <785@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jun-84 14:03:27 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.785 Posted: Sat Jun 9 14:03:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 23:44:15 EDT Lines: 23 From: Ron NatalieFirst of all. You are misleading people: while(expr) statement ; does have a null statement, nobody codes that way because an example of that would be: while(i=4) foo(i); ; because expr = "i=4" and statement is "foo(i);". Note that for the expression to be a statement it must contain it's own semicolon. You don't do while(i=4) { foo(i); goo(i); }; either because blocks as statements don't need semicolon termination. -Ron