Re: clear or fill memory? & Semicolon question

From: [at]} <Bob>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:39:43 +0100

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Hi,

>> So why is this recommended? I think it is as useless as were the excessive
> BEGINs and ENDs in ancient Pascal.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>

it is recommended because it is a separator, not a terminator. The
semi-colon is a symbol for '...and then...', indicating that the
statements form a sequence of operations, not a set of possibly parallel
operations.

If you write

   IF c THEN
      s0; s1;
   END

you have written an empty operation between the last ; and the END.

Whether this matters or not is largely a question of personal taste.

-- 
Regards,
 Bob
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Received on Fri Oct 01 2004 - 21:39:43 UTC