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From: dave@inset.UUCP (Dave Lukes)
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Subject: Re: C Wishes
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 13:40:46 EST
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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.
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