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000093_icon-group-sender _Wed Nov 18 22:16:48 1992.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:57:05 MST
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:16:48 EST
From: Paul_Abrahams@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Message-Id: <529434@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu>
Subject: Readability of semicolons
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Ralph Griswold commented:
<< With semicolons, programmers tend to string a bunch of statements
together on one long line. This often makes programs harder to read than
if they were written one statement per line with a more vertical layout.
>>
Yes, but you can also string a bunch of statements together on one line in
Icon, or write statements one per line in some other language. So the
Icon convention seems to me at least to be neutral with respect to this
aspect of readability.
Paul Abrahams