>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> My impression is that the missing semi-colon is allowed to make it so
Chris> that statements like this --
Chris> sub ack { print "Ack! Ack! Mars will rule!" }
Chris> -- work as one-liners without having to fuss over another semi-colon.
Chris> For anything longer than a single-statement one-liner, it's a bad habit.
My rule is that if I'm writing a multi-line block:
if (...) {
...
...
...
}
then I include the final semicolon, but if it's only one line,
I leave it off.
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