Algol-style vs C-style semicolons - (nf)

[ron at BRL-TGR.ARPA]

From:      Ron Natalie <ron at BRL-TGR.ARPA>

First of all.  You are misleading people:

	while(expr) statement ;

does have a null statement, nobody codes that way because
an example of that would be:

	while(i=4) foo(i); ;

because expr = "i=4" and statement is "foo(i);".  Note that for
the expression to be a statement it must contain it's own semicolon.
You don't do

	while(i=4)  {
		foo(i);
		goo(i);
	};

either because blocks as statements don't need semicolon termination.

-Ron