On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:21:25 +0200, bambo <b...@m.bo> wrote: >Walter Bright schrieb: >> Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >> >> Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbolsmostcertainly >> doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus >> aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould >> putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext >> Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere >> youareSemicolonsarethesamething >> >> (Fixed that for you!) > >Walter, what a remarkable proove the semicolon helps us all a lot! >You are sooooo BRIGHT! You are so creative and intelligent! > >I LOVE YOU!
This is one of Walter's proofs that don't prove anything. Spaces between words are *not redundant*. And we are talking about *redundant* semicolons in programs where sentences (statements) are mostly placed each on its own line, unlike human languages where sentences are separated by points. New lines between statements are separators that make semicolons redundant. Anyway, I agree that semicolons should stay. However, the reasons are different.
