From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Wed Oct 29 16:44:50 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) id h9TFiojf053696 for sc22wg5-domo; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:44:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov (mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.81.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h9TFhHEt053674 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:44:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov) Received: from mail.dfrc.nasa.gov by mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov with ESMTP for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:40:12 -0800 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov ([130.134.20.211]) by mail.dfrc.nasa.gov (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-71686U2500L200S0V35) with ESMTP id gov for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:43:49 -0800 Received: by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (Postfix, from userid 201) id BCC84380D0; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:43:46 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <16287.57394.640219.102317@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:43:46 -0800 To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: (SC22WG5.3044) RE: Statement separation/termination In-Reply-To: <200310291259.h9TCx19M051621@dkuug.dk> References: <200310291259.h9TCx19M051621@dkuug.dk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" XEmacs Lucid X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk Kruyt, E.W. (FYS) writes: > What if the continuation line starts with '&' ? > For example, is the following allowed? > > x = 1.0 & > &; Looks legit to me. I see no restriction against it. The restriction against starting continuation lines with ";" doesn't make any sense to me in the first place, so I don't think you can fall back on sensibly interpreting it to apply here. If one wants to try to use logic to determine what it ought to have said, then I think you get back to it not applying to continuation lines. Otherwise, I think you need to stick to a literal interpretation of exactly what it says. The exact words do not restrict against this case, since the ";" is not the first character of the line. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; Richard.Maine@nasa.gov | experience comes from bad judgment. | -- Mark Twain