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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: question about linker
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 16:28:24 +0100
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On 07.12.2024 16:19, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 07.12.2024 15:57, Bart wrote:
>> The two examples need to be written like this to be valid:
>>
>>     do while (cond) ; while (cond);
>>     do ; while (cond) ; while (cond);
>>
>> So this /is/ two nested loops followed by two consecutive ones. The
>> difference is that semicolon.
> 
> Someone here already called things like that as "condensed" (or some
> such), meaning that syntax is strict and has few redundancies; small
> changes are meaningful and relevant. (Nothing for sloppy hackers, for
> sure.)
> 
>> [...]
>>
>> Those suggesting that semicolons are unimportant details of syntax in C
>> are wrong. [...]
> 
> I don't recall; who said that?

Ah, wait. - You might again be confusing things...

There was discussion of semicolons being a separator in some languages
and a terminator in other languages. Which is a comparably unimportant
language design choice. - But once you choose one language or another,
you have to strictly follow its chosen syntactical rules, of course.
Do you understand that?

Janis