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From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Algol-style vs C-style semicolons
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Date: Thu, 31-May-84 15:50:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 31 15:50:38 1984
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> (Apply :-) to entire article)
>
>>	... I'd just like to point out that I've read that people
>>	make fewer mistakes involving semicolons in languages that
>>	use them C-style than ALGOL-style.
>
> Perhaps it's because we're used to periods as sentence *terminators*,
> not *separators*.  Just a thought

We use periods as terminators; we use semicolons as separators;

[There, doesn't that look just as funny?  :-) ]

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	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories