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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: More physical source files |
| Date | 2015-06-29 08:16 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <ln8ub2fstw.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink) |
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David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> But oddly enough it seems that the label colon could be replaced
> everywhere by semicolons and the resulting language could be parsed
> exactly the same as C. I am not purposing this - I just pointing out
> something I had never observed before.
No, it couldn't.
This program;
int main(void) {
int n;
n:
;
}
is syntactically valid; the "n:" is a label. If you change the
colon to a semicolon, it becomes a reference to the int object.
> It might be necessary to add
> an explicit statment that
> identifier SEMICOLON
> is a label and not a meaning expression statement.
That would be a change to the language.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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