Optional semi-colons

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <29785 at apple.Apple.COM> desnoyer at 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.