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

["Steve Brazzell" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

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":

>         For i = 0 to num;
>              x = y(i);
>         EndFor;

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.

As for the GOTO, I say be gone with it!  I wish it had never been part of
the language to begin with.

Just my 2 cents...

Steve

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