Infocom on PDP-11

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > > The Algol/Pascal rule is very simple: semicolons between
> > > statements.  Since Algol at least has null statements, if you
> > > throw in an extra one it doesn't hurt, but that's the rule and it
> > > works very well.
> > > 
> > > Thus the program that Cameron quoted as begin; writeln('You had
> > > best not be dissing Pascal, boy'); end.
> > > 
> > > should be written without either of the semicolons.

> > Why? (Unless you're talking about Algol.)

> Because Pascal uses the same rule of semicolons as Algol does.

I was all set to disagree with you, so I ran it through Turbo Pascal without
the semicolons and ... it worked.

However, when you say semicolons between statements, that's what I did. So
why could I have dropped the semicolons, unless I have the wrong idea about
what Pascal (and presumably Algol) considers a statement?

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