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I am curious about the choice of the semi-colons to end a statement. Most, if not all, languages use a period to end sentences. Was this delimiter considered to much like COBOL for RPG? Is the semi-colon considered more visible and thus easier to read? I could buy the latter as missing those periods in COBOL cost me many times. Donald R. Fisher, III Project Manager Roomstore Furniture Company (804) 784-7600 extension 2124 DFisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <clip> No can do. The compiler needs some way to unambiguously delimit statements. If we had some other syntax, there'd be people complaining about that method too. And supporting different syntaxes now is right out of the question. <clip>
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