[Javascript] RE: semicolon;

[Edward Tisdale]

So this ambiguity would be better if it were more like
c/c++ nwhich requires the semicolon.  I remember back
programming BASIC on the Commodore-64 when I used
colons to seperate multiple commmands on the sam e
line, so isn't this way of doing it actually older
than the semicolon?  I think I can live with both ways
you know because I love the proprietary part of
Microsoft as well as the portability of C/C++.  Every
company should develop their own language to keep
their own company secure but I don't want that
poratbility ro go away.  Which brings us back to
Mozilla. Hey I'm still looking for an answer to my
question a couple of months ago about why this "Flying
(Java)Script" I have on my website only actually works
on older Netscape versions (like 4.7,4.8)  and not on
any IE and if it's possible to make it work on
Mozilla.  Here I attached it.




--- Paul Novitski <paul at novitskisoftware.com> wrote:
> At 11:20 AM 6/24/2004, Edward Tisdale wrote:
> >And this great use of a semicolon is not available
> in
> >Visual Basic. What does one do in this case?
> 
> 
> Visual Basic uses either the carriage return or the
> colon as a statement 
> delimiter, and can split statements across multiple
> lines with the underscore:
> 
>          h = 0:
>          i = 1
>          j = 2: k = _
>          3
> 
> compared to JavaScript, which uses either the
> carriage return or the 
> semi-colon as a statement delimiter, and can split
> statements across 
> multiple lines with the carriage return:
> 
>          h = 0;
>          i = 1
>          j = 2; k =
>          3
> 
> As you can see, Visual Basic is quite explicit, and
> doesn't share 
> JavaScript's ambiguity of the use of a carriage
> return as statement delimiter.
> 
> Paul  
> 
> 
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