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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: improve language by dropping ;
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Date: 21 Feb 91 15:41:41 GMT
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Organization: Tasha Yar Appreciation Soc... oh, sh*t
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In article <21900005@inmet>, rgh@inmet.inmet.com writes:
> 
> 	a := b +
> 	     c
> 
> This sensible and workable rule could be adapted to most Algol-ish languages.

...and was used in the Algol-ish language IMP back in the mid 70's.

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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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