"C" wish list.

[Jeff Siegal]

In article <742 at mmintl.UUCP> franka at mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>I disagree; I prefer ;'s as statement terminators.  Trying to look at it
>objectively, I can see very little reason to prefer one or the other.  I
>suspect most people prefer whichever they first dealt with.  I am reasonably
>certain that essentially the same problem occurs either way: leaving them
>out when they are required, or inserting them when they are illegal.
>

Not exactly true.  With the statement separator model (Algol, Pascal),
one is free on insert or remove semi's at the end of the last statement
of a block with both forms being syntactically correct.  This does not
work with the statement terminator model (C).

As in:

BEGIN
 a := a + 1;
 b := b + 1;
END

or 

BEGIN
 a := a + 1;
 b := b + 1
END

Of course, in the first case, the last statement in the block is
really the-null-statement which is between the semi (statement
separator) and the END (complex statement terminator).

Jeff Siegal - EECS

P.S.  I like statement terminators better too.