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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Optional semi-colons
Message-ID: <10162@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 29 Apr 89 02:26:54 GMT
References: <9244@alice.UUCP> <12716@lanl.gov> <10134@smoke.BRL.MIL> <41117@oliveb.olivetti.com> <29785@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <29785@apple.Apple.COM> desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
>Along these lines I have heard that people make fewer errors with
>C-style semicolons - {statement;statement;} - than with Pascal-style
>ones - {statement;statement}. Is this true?

I seem to recall the Ada designers saying that statement terminators
had been shown to be less error-prone that statement separators.