Drieux wrote:
>
> 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????
Oui.
John
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