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Gary Scott to Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Re: Implicit Semicolons And Statement-Co

09 Feb 24 21:00:48

   From: garylscott@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 2/9/2024 3:26 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 15:49:37 +0100, db wrote:   
   >   
   >> Pascal and Algol demand semicolons at the end of statements.   
   >   
   > No they don’t. In those languages, semicolons are statement separators,   
   > not statement terminators.   
   >   
   > Pascal requires them at the end of declarations, of everything except the   
   > main program, which ends with a full stop.   
   They're also statement separators in Fortran.   
      
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