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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: compound statements
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Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 21:32:01 EDT
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Funny thing: this 'feature' dates back to Fortran II.  It also appears in
Simpl-t.  (Simpl-t also got rid of the semicolons.)

In languages like Pascal, where there may be functions within functions, it
is necessary to have some sort of "end-of-procedure" delimiter.

C. Wingate