On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can not even put two statements on the same line. So the ';' is semi > useless syntax.
Nobody ever asked for that, but lots of people asked to allow statements spanning multiple lines. > Is their a way to move things forward without hurting backwards > compatibility of the CLI? Yes. Create a new one based on CQL but leave the old one around. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com