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From: rgh@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Aren't people fed up with semicolons
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 12:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 12:37:00 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!rgh    Apr 26 13:37:00 1985


The language Icon has a good solution to the semicolon problem.
It's defined as a statement separator, with the added rule that
end-of-line implies a semicolon if one could legitimately occur
there.  So you write multi-line statements using trailing operator
style:

	a = b +		# semicolon can't occur here
	    c +
	    d		# could here, so one is assumed
	f( x + 1,
	   y + 2,
	   z - x)


    Randy Hudson {ihnp4,ima,harpo}!inmet!rgh