Re: Algol-style semicolons

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From: Liber
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1988 01:52

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In article <88Dec16.100919est.4327@turing.toronto.edu> perelgut@turing.toronto.edu (Stephen Perelgut) writes:
|Another method of handling semi-colons is to not have them.  All you
|need to do is terminate multi-part statements.  For example:
|	if x then
|	    s1
|	    s2
|	elsif y then
|	    s3
|	    s4
|	else
|	    s5
|	end if
|
|There are no ambiguities there!  And the only cost is terminating a statement.
|For example: if/end if; for/end for; loop/end loop; case/end case; etc.
|This also has the effect of making programs more readable.

Yes, but what do you do with statements that span more than one line?
You still need a way of saying that an expression is to be continued on
the next line (or that you don't need to continue a statement by
use of a separator or terminator; this amounts to the same thing).
-- 
NEVIN ":-)" LIBER  AT&T Bell Laboratories  nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM  (312) 979-4751

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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
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Subject: Re: Algol-style semicolons
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Date: 21 Dec 88 01:52:36 GMT
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