%% John Graham-Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Another question, ";" means do nothing, why sometimes we still add some
>> commands after ;? (I mean, if do nothing, we should not add any commands
>> after ";").
jg> No, ; doesn't mean do nothing. ; means after this semicolon are
jg> commands that should be executed for this rule. If there are no
jg> commands then there are no commands to execute.
Put another way, this:
foo: ; echo foo
is just another way to write this:
foo:
<TAB> echo foo
and so this:
foo: ;
is just another way to write this:
foo:
<TAB>
(an empty command)
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