12 May
2005
12 May
'05
6:38 a.m.
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.
Why? (Unless you're talking about Algol.)
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