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From: toby@angst.forefront.com.au (Toby Sargeant)
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Subject: Re: ANSI C code
Date: 18 Mar 1998 10:49:56 GMT
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:54:49 -0000, JohnT <johnt@nettech.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Ok, I was only going by what I was taught. Here it is...
>
>The semicolon ; is used to end a statement. Therefore the following are
>correct...

from K&R second ed, p236.

statement:
	labeled-statement
	expression-statement
	compound-statement
	selection-statement
	iteration-statement
	jump-statement

expression-statement:
	expression_opt ;

expression:
	assignment-expression
	expression , assignment-expression

so a statement is (among other things) an optional assignment, followed by
a semicolon, which is equivalent to a single semicolon.

Sorry to be a rules lawyer.

toby.