Infocom on PDP-11

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > 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?

> "begin" and "end" are not statements -- they are keywords.  Think of
> them as parentheses.  (In fact, in Algol 68 they are synonymous with
> parentheses.)  Similarly, you don't put semicolons into the middle of
> an if/then/else either.

Ahhh, okay. That explains it. Thanks for the clarification.

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