Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!spool.mu.edu!samsung!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!arizona.edu!arizona!gudeman
From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: improve language by dropping ;
Message-ID: <561@coatimundi.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 21:25:34 GMT
Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu
Lines: 28

In article  <5622.9103011021@olympus.cs.hull.ac.uk> Rob Turner writes:
]Randy Hudson writes:
]
]> ... end-of-line is treated as a statement
]>separator if the statement could end there. That is,...
]
]Let's carry it further, though. What about
]
]       a := b c := d
]
]A parser could read in the "c" after the "b", and, instead of issuing
]an error message, assume that the previous statement has ended.
]
]I acknowledge that debugging programs would become a lot harder if
]this technique was used. Let's stick with semicolons.

That is a fallacious argument:

(1) Y is bad,
(2) Y is an extension of X,
therefore
(3) X is bad.

Statement (3) does not follow logically from (1) and (2).
--
					David Gudeman
gudeman@cs.arizona.edu
noao!arizona!gudeman