On 21-11-2014 18:41, Paul Vinkenoog wrote:
> Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>
>>> "All statements except the BEGIN…END blocks must be separated by a
>>> semicolon.."
>>> - terminated, not separated.
>>
>> I think separated is actually correct here (although terminated is as
>> well). The statement is terminated by the semi-colon, but multiple
>> statements are separated by the semi-columns
>
> It's not exactly the same thing. If statements must be *separated* by
> semicolons (like in Pascal), the separator can be omitted after the last
> statement in a block, e.g. before 'end', 'else' or 'until'.
>
> But in PSQL, even that last statement must be terminated by a semicolon.
If you look at for example the Java Language Specification (chapter
Lexical Structures), then the following class of characters are
designated as separators:
( ) { } [ ] ; , . ... @ ::
And in Java the semicolon is non-optional.
So IMHO both uses are perfectly valid.
Mark
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