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Re:Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (2011) by _lce0 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:26PM (#10429928)
Actually there are two types of ";", expression-separator (the one you mentioned) and statement-separator (the one parent meant)

The problem with using those for code metrics is that many systems don't require separators, like `if`, `for` and friends

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Re:Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (2011) by a1k0n on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:26AM (#10430538)
FWIW, most of this code is actually contained inside for loop expressions, since you can chain them together with commas and get away without using any braces. Once that's done it's hard to even count "lines".
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