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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Semicolons (Re: Low-Rent Syntax)
Keywords: parse, design
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Date: 6 Sep 90 10:20:39 GMT
References: <4032@rtifs1.UUCP> <1990Aug29.140407.28378@maths.nott.ac.uk> <9009052108.AA15597@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <9009052108.AA15597@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
[ about the convention to put semicolons in front of a statement ]
...
 > Comment2: I never bothered to find out who invented this convention, so I
 > can't give proper credit.

I believe it was Charles Lindsey in some issue of the Algol Bulletin.

An advantage is also that it clearly shows the pairs of opening and closing
delimiters of a sequence of statements.  I.e. what is the closing brace
belonging to this opening brace?
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl
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