Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: improve language by dropping ; Message-ID: <2636@enea.se> Date: 17 Feb 91 19:44:54 GMT References: <8507.27b91f9e@jetson.uh.edu> Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 12 Also sprach cosc13gb@jetson.uh.edu: > 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 Obviously you haven't programmed in Eiffel. The general rule seems to be that if you get a syntax error you don't under- stand, remove a semicolon. -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se