Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!vtserf!creatures!csgrad!lavinus From: lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: improve language by dropping ; Message-ID: <984@creatures.cs.vt.edu> Date: 25 Feb 91 21:24:58 GMT References: <8507.27b91f9e@jetson.uh.edu> <329@smds.UUCP> <1991Feb18.140346.8896@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <943@creatures.cs.vt.edu> Sender: usenet@creatures.cs.vt.edu Reply-To: lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu () Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 21 Well, people seem to have gotten the wrong idea about my previous posting: I do not advocate, like, nor justify the presence of semicolons in any language. The less I have to worry about cosmetics (that includes semicolons, whitespace, and other stuff which has no semantic usefulness), the happier I am. However, I was trying to point out that that is (at least part of) the reason why semicolons are in these languages. BTW, what do people think of languages which use *no* separators whatsoever - for that matter, I can't even think of one right now; the closest one being Lisp, which still requires some whitespace to separate elements of lists, etc. So long... Joe Lavinus P.S.WhitespaceisnotstrictlynecessaryinEnglish,either. -- _______________________________________________________________ _ _ __ Joseph W. Lavinus (lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu) | / \ |_ Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia __| \_/ |_