delimiters in conditionals

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>	Anyone who is a serious student of programming linguistics,
>    should realize that a delimiter is neccessary to separate the
>    expression from the statement in all conditional language-constucts
>    -- if you want to keep your grammer LALR(1) (almost a given).

Not at all true.  It depends on the statement and expression structure of
the language.  You can take the 'then' out of the Pascal 'if' without
introducing any ambiguity.  Really--ask your parser-generator (I did!)
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