On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 03:08 , John W. Krahn wrote:
[..]
>
> A separator is required _between_ objects. A terminator is required _at
> the end of_ objects. A delimiter is required _at the beginning and end_
> of objects.
>
> Quotation marks, braces, brackets, and parenthesis are delimiters.
> COBOL has terminators, every statement has to end with a period. In
> Perl, unlike some other languages, the separator token is optional at
> the end of the last object.
hence why we sometimes see
sub fooBarbazBob {
my ( @arglist ) = @_;
......
$retThing
}
and it does not 'need' to have a ';' "delimiter since
it is the final object in the { .... }
is this correct????
ciao
drieux
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just because it may be correct, still makes me nervous....
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