RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?

At 11/2/00 10:52 AM +0000, you wrote:
>The purpose of the semi-colon is to indicate the logical end of a program
>statement.  You mis-quote George Farr's example slightly.  Here is what you
>"quote":
>Here is an exact quote:
>
>           For i = 0
>               to num;
>             x = y(i);
>           EndFor;
>
>His example points out, implicitly, why the semi-colon is needed.  There are
>multi-line statements that would be ambiguous without the explicit
>end-of-statement notation.

  In that case, an explicit line continuation character s/b used.  Adding 
baggage for EVERY statement to accommodate the few exceptions is not a good 
design.

  -mark


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