Re: improve language by dropping ;

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From: lavinus
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 1991 21:24

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Well, people seem to have gotten the wrong idea about my previous posting:
I do not advocate, like, nor justify the presence of semicolons in any
language.  The less I have to worry about cosmetics (that includes semicolons,
whitespace, and other stuff which has no semantic usefulness), the happier
I am.  However, I was trying to point out that that is (at least part of) the
reason why semicolons are in these languages.

BTW, what do people think of languages which use *no* separators whatsoever - 
for that matter, I can't even think of one right now; the closest one being
Lisp, which still requires some whitespace to separate elements of lists, etc.

So long...

Joe Lavinus

P.S.WhitespaceisnotstrictlynecessaryinEnglish,either.
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