From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 10:06:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!pln-w!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!206.13.28.144!news.pacbell.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B683813.3A305C78@sneakemail.com> From: Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language References: <3B65E6A0.A45F570D@lmtas.lmco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:10:43 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: news.pacbell.net 996685603 63.194.87.148 (Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:06:43 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:06:43 PDT Organization: SBC Internet Services Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10960 Date: 2001-08-01T10:10:43-07:00 List-Id: AG wrote: > > "> Russ wrote: > > > > 2. Eliminate the requirement for a semicolon after each executable > > > statement, but allow semicolons for combining multiple statements on a > > > line, as in Python. > > That's an obvious contradiction in requirements: Semicolons no longer > terminate > a statement but they still combine statements? So what does separate one > statement > from the next? To elaborate: if you have some other scheme to identify the > statements > you don't need the semicolon at all, if you rely on it to join the > statements why not use > it for separation too? Check out how Python and Fortran 95 do it. It is not a "contradiction in requirements." Russ