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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:19:34 +0100
Subject: Re: Am I not seeing the Error?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Joel Goldstick
<joel.goldstick@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you like semicolons, use another language that needs them.
> I think you think it is some version of premature optimization.  Since
> you are a novice at the language, stick with the standards, and learn
> to embrace them.

I'm a C programmer who really likes his semicolons, and I often write
long lines. But I still was right up there early on saying "split this
line". It definitely wants to be split. And when *I* say that, it must
be pretty notably splittable. :)

ChrisA