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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Readability part I - code
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 08:26:56 -0700
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raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes:
> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>> Invariably? Take Pascal, for instance, which uses BEGIN and END in the 
>> same way that C uses { and }. Do you write:
>> 
>> IF foo THEN BEGIN
>>    bar ;
>>    baz ;
>>    quux
>> END
>
> Yes.
>
> And the fact that you are _not allowed_ (not merely not required, but
> actually disallowed) to add that last ; bugs me enormously.

Actually a semicolon *is* allowed before an END.  It's not allowed
before an ELSE.  (One could argue that that's worse than simply
not allowing a semicolon before either END or ELSE.)

In Pascal, the semicolon is a statement separator, not a statement
terminator.  Before an END, it separates the previous statement
from an emtpy statement.  Before an ELSE, it creates two statements
where only one is allowed.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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