Hi.
Your explanation is correct but my approach is more pragmatic and less
philosophical.
There are some cases already where you can use a semicolon or leave it out.
Like :
begin
if a > 100 then
DoThing1
else if a > 50 then
DoThing2
else if a > 10 then
DoThing3
else
DoThing4
end
You don't need a semicolon after the last DoThing4 because it is followed by
END. That is handy when you need to change order and copy/paste those lines,
and none of them has semicolon.
However :
begin
if a > 100 then
DoThing1
else if a > 50 then
DoThing2
else if a > 10 then
DoThing3
else
DoThing4;
FinalAction;
end
Now you needed the semicolon.
Why not allow this, for pragmatic reasons:
begin
if a > 100 then
DoThing1;
else if a > 50 then
DoThing2;
else if a > 10 then
DoThing3;
else
DoThing4;
FinalAction;
end
You can already add semicolons for example after END even they are not
required.
This has the same spirit as Perl's array syntax which allows a comma also
after the last item. It is handy when reordering or adding items. It may be
wrong philosophically or technically (or something) but it works and makes
things easier.
(This would be another improvement for Pascal const array syntax, too, but
let's not go there now. It need its own thread.)
Regards,
Juha Manninen
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