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From: Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>
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Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 12:32:08 -0500
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Russ wrote:
> 
> Adrian Hoe wrote:
> >
> > Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:<3B67B0BC.F51C4CB4@sneakemail.com>...
> > > Adrian Hoe wrote:
> > > >
> > According to your proposition:
> >
> > if a = 0 then
> >    a = 1
> >    b = 2
> >    c = 3
> > end if
> >
> > can lead to many errors, for instance:
> >
> > if a = 0 then
> >    a = 1 b = 2
> >    c=3
> > end if
> >
> > But with Ada:
> >
> > if a = 0 then
> >    a = 1;
> >    b = 2;
> >    c = 3;
> > end if;
> >
> > And this is much clearer because at a glance, you see the semicolons
> > and you see end of statements!
> 
> Check out how Fortran 95 does it. They don't seem to have the problem
> you are referring to.
> 
Fortran 95 simply recognizes logical end of record as the same as end of
statement unless a special continuation character is used.  Consecutive
statements may be separated by ";".  I think that this method was
mentioned indirectly in several previous posts and was thought to be "a
bad thing" because it isn't "true" free-form format.
> Russ