12 May
2005
12 May
'05
7:28 a.m.
>>>> "Cameron" == Cameron Kaiser
<spectre at floodgap.com> writes:
> The Algol/Pascal rule is very simple: semicolons
between
> statements. Since Algol at least has null statements, if you
> throw in an extra one it doesn't hurt, but that's the rule and it
> works very well.
>
> Thus the program that Cameron quoted as begin; writeln('You had
> best not be dissing Pascal, boy'); end.
>
> should be written without either of the semicolons.
Cameron> Why? (Unless you're talking about Algol.)
Because Pascal uses the same rule of semicolons as Algol does.
paul