jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) (11/04/85)
Witness Pascal. Many people feel that since ; is optional in some places (e.g. before an end) there is no reason to put one there. Example: procedure blort; begin stmt1; stmt2 end; If you decide that you want a stmt3, I personally GUARANTEE that 99% of the time you will forget to add the now necessary semi-colon after stmt2. It is much more difficult to suffer from this problem using C's ; rules. QED