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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
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Date: 2012-04-25T21:36:18-05:00
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"Georg Bauhaus" <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote in message 
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...
> Also, imagine a few line breaks that Perl programmers would write.
> They have return [expression] [if expression] and write
>
>   $foo = something($bar);
>   return $foo + frobnicte($bar + $something)  # No ';' here!
>   if $bar > 0;
>   continuing();
>
> This all becomes very dependent on single ';'s. You can see it when you
> feed the above future Ada text to Ada compilers :-)

Ada requires parens around conditional expressions for this very reason. You 
still have get into circumstances where the compiler can't tell if a paren 
or ; is missing, but it is never legal without one of them.

                                          Randy.