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From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben [gidius Mogensen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: improve language by dropping ;
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Date: 15 Feb 91 14:33:27 GMT
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cosc13gb@jetson.uh.edu writes:

>discussion not flame invite
>  why does language has separator ; ? Is it for the benefit of the compiler
>  can compiler now smart enough to drop the ;
>  ; will always slow down programmer(human) who will forget them
>  If compiler must have ; how about a tool that include with every compiler
>  that will insert ; semi-automatic

There was a long discussion about this on comp.lang.functional recently.

The ability to drop the ;'s on line-breaks is called off-side rules.
Languages that use off-side rules include Occam, Miranda and Haskell.

	Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)