Re: improve language by dropping ;

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From: Ozan Yigit
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 1991 15:16

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In article <UUEO3RO@math.fu-berlin.de>
dww@math.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes:

>Now what do I do about statements like
>
>  a := b
>       + c ?

I am not sure what you mean. What is there to do? ``a := b'' statement is
complete, and the ``+ c'' statement is in error, at least in most of the
languages I know of that do away with the semicolon. In such languages
[e.g. Icon, Bell Labs S etc] a statement is allowed to continue only when
it is clear that the end of the expression cannot have occurred yet. In
practice, this is easy to implement, and works rather well. 

oz
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Subject: Re: improve language by dropping ;
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