Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 + RN 4.3; site inset.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!inset!dave From: dave@inset.UUCP (Dave Lukes) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C Wishes Message-ID: <792@inset.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 13:40:46 EST Article-I.D.: inset.792 Posted: Thu Nov 7 13:40:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 05:44:18 EST References: <2742@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: dave@inset.UUCP (Dave Lukes) Organization: The Instruction Set Ltd., London, UK. Lines: 24 Xpath: stc stc-a In article <2742@brl-tgr.ARPA> jcm@ORNL-MSR.ARPA (James A. Mullens) writes: > >Someone Said: >>> 5. There are various parts of the syntax that I don't like: >>> 2. ;'s as statement terminators, I prefer the algol statement >>> separator. >> I disagree; I prefer ;'s as statement terminators. Trying to look at it >> objectively, I can see very little reason to prefer one or the other. > >I don't see a major difference between >"statement separator" and "statement terminator" if ";" is the only >symbol allowed to perform the separation. There is a major difference: people in general (not neccessarily particular individuals) make more mistakes with ``;'' separators than with ``;'' terminators (apparently this is why in ADA, ``;'' is a terminator, even though ADA is ``PASCAL-like'' in most things). Yours in separation and termination, Dave. -- All opinions, philosophies, dogmas and idiosyncrasies expressed in this article INCLUDING THIS DISCLAIMER, are solely those of the author.