Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Semi-colons as separators are stupid Message-ID: <17089@watmath.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 19:38:08 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.17089 Posted: Sun Nov 3 19:38:08 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 02:30:38 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16 Witness Pascal. Many people feel that since ; is optional in some places (e.g. before an end) there is no reason to put one there. Example: procedure blort; begin stmt1; stmt2 end; If you decide that you want a stmt3, I personally GUARANTEE that 99% of the time you will forget to add the now necessary semi-colon after stmt2. It is much more difficult to suffer from this problem using C's ; rules. QED