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

["Rolf Mittag" <rm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> John, there is actually a reason for the semi colon.  You can continue
> statements in C/Java/Pascal on as many lines as you want and the compiler
> doesn't care, because it knows that the end of the statement is the ;

? really ?

try some interactive Sql, sooner or later you will come aross a message like
"token xyz not expected, expected tokens ... end of statement, ...

a compiler _must_ always know, what to expect next so why not  :
if the statement is syntactically complete, let's assume it's finished
and the next one starts. even IBM can do that (look at Sql ;-)

R. Mittag

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