Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
><moh...@pahlevanzadeh.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm C++ programmer and unfortunately put semicolon at end of my
>> statements in python.
>>
>> Quesion:
>> What's really defferences between putting semicolon and don't put?
>
> Very little. Putting the semicolon makes you look like a C programmer
> who's new to Python; omitting it makes you look like you actually
> understand Python :)
>
> As a C and C++ programmer myself, I know where you're coming from, but
> putting semicolons at the ends of Python statements is as useless as
> putting ((((lots of (((irritating (((superfluous
> (((parentheses))))))))))))) in your C++ code. The parser won't mind,
> but subsequent programmers will wonder what these unnecessary
> syntactic elements are for.
>
> ChrisA
>
Someone I knew actually used these definitions when writing C in a Pascalish,
Algol68ish
style (if I remembered them correctly):
#define IF if(((
#define AND ))&&((
#define OR )||(
#define THEN ))){
#define ELSE }else{
#define FI }
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