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|    db to Lawrence D'Oliveiro    |
|    Re: Implicit Semicolons And Statement-Co    |
|    09 Feb 24 15:49:37    |
      From: dieterhansbritz@gmail.com              On 06.02.2024 04.04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       > Fortran (in free-form mode) is now the third language I’ve come across       > that allows semicolons to terminate statements, but makes them       > optional (letting a newline do the job instead).       [...]              Pascal and Algol demand semicolons at the end of statements.       --       Dieter Britz              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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