12 May
2005
12 May
'05
7:54 a.m.
> However, when you say semicolons between
statements, that's
> what I did. So why could I have dropped the semicolons,
> unless I have the wrong idea about what Pascal (and
> presumably Algol) considers a statement?
"begin" and "end" are not
statements -- they are keywords. Think of
them as parentheses. (In fact, in Algol 68 they are synonymous with
parentheses.) Similarly, you don't put semicolons into the middle of
an if/then/else either.
Ahhh, okay. That explains it. Thanks for the clarification.
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