On Thu, October 31, 2013 15:34, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > 2013/10/31 waldo kitty <wkitt...@windstream.net> > >> On 10/31/2013 7:38 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: >> >>> But is this really good? Doesn't this contradict the Pascal >>> philosophy? Borland did a few questionable things (look at how you used >>> the >>> semicolons in you examples above ;-) ), >>> >> >> i can't see anything untoward with their use... they are statement >> separators, after all ;) >> > > Not when they are placed before a "end" since "end" is not a statement. > Some Pascal compilers would even completely refuse a semicolon before a > "end".
It isn't necessarily about "end" being a statement, but about allowing or not allowing empty statements: begin WriteLn (1) ;;;; WriteLn (1) end. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
