Drieux wrote: > > On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 12:53 , John W. Krahn wrote: > > > Semi-colons, like commas, are separators not terminators. > > fore the semantically disenabled, the distinction betwee > the notion of a 'separator' and a 'terminator' is what?
A separator is required _between_ objects. A terminator is required _at the end of_ objects. A delimiter is required _at the beginning and end_ of objects. Quotation marks, braces, brackets, and parenthesis are delimiters. COBOL has terminators, every statement has to end with a period. In Perl, unlike some other languages, the separator token is optional at the end of the last object. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
