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Re:Linguistics and Programming Languages by setr on Monday July 17, 2017 @06:33PM (#14792798)
Isn't the automated insertion of semicolons to your detrimemt a result of ambiguity in the language, and the compiler forced to decide
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Re:Linguistics and Programming Languages by laszlokorte on Monday July 17, 2017 @07:52PM (#14793293)
The rules for automatic semicolon insertion are defined by the language spec.
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