On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:08:57PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 13:43, Abigail <abig...@abigail.be> wrote: > > The professor [1] who taught us Pascal in university treated ';'s to > > *start* statements with: > > BEGIN do_this > > ; do_that > > ; more_things > > ; yada_yada_yada > > END > Ah, yes - I've seen that style before, too, though seldomly. > And, recently, a similar thing in SQL: > > SELECT > this > , that > , theother > FROM > tablename > , othertable > ...
See also http://search.cpan.org/~domizio I hate it, because ; was what you used to start a comment in an assembler I used many years ago. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.