Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!taumet!steve
From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Using Macros
Message-ID: <389@taumet.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 15:27:14 GMT
References: <14363@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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farrell@onedge.enet.dec.com (Bernard Farrell) writes:

|In article <10836@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, volpe@underdog.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe) writes...

|	if (blah)
|	{
|	    stmt1;
|	    stmt2;
|	};
|>           
|>Can someone with a copy of the Standard tell us if a semicolon is 
|>allowed? ...
|... I believe K&R (n) was probably placating Pascal converts, and meant
|no semicolon necessary.

The problem comes when you attach an "else" clause:
	if (blah)
	{
	    ...
	};
	else { ... }
The semicolon is illegal there (or the "else" is illegal, take your pick).

And of course, following the closing brace of a function with a
semicolon is illegal (in ANSI C).
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com