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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:21:07 MST
  2. Date: 3 Nov 92 07:14:38 GMT
  3. From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!raven!rcd@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Dick Dunn)
  4. Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado
  5. Subject: Re: semicolons
  6. Message-Id: <1992Nov3.071438@eklektix.com>
  7. References: <199210290026.AA05706@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>, <2AF1779D.15473@ics.uci.edu>
  8. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
  9. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  10. Status: R
  11. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  12.  
  13. omalley@spare.ics.uci.edu (Owen O'Malley) writes:
  14. >Personally, I like using semicolons and think they increase
  15. >readability...
  16.  
  17. I think it might benefit the discussion if you'd explain this!  Why do you
  18. find that it increases readability to add an unnecessary character??  Is it
  19. perhaps more a matter of tradition?
  20. -- 
  21. Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
  22.     ...Simpler is better.
  23.