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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:49:09 MST
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:00:42 MST
From: "Ralph Griswold" <ralph>
Message-Id: <199211191300.AA18993@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
To: Paul_Abrahams@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu, icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: Readability of semicolons
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Yes, of course you *can* string things together on one line in Icon.
But the use of lines rather than semicolons to separate expressions
encourages a more readable style.
Rick Fonorow once noted that it's never necessary to have any semicolons
in an Icon program (except in literals). If you use that as a style guide,
you tend to get more readable programs.