Re: Parenthesized Target Notation

Roger Browne <[email protected]> wrote:
	In 1998 we persuaded Bertrand Meyer to use newline for
	disambiguation in this case.

6.2.19 Semantics: Semicolon Optionality rule
    In writing specifications of {\bf any} construct defined by a Repetition
    production specifying the semicolon ";" as separatort, it is permitted,
    without any effect on the syntax structure, validity and semantics of
    the software, to omit any of the semicolons.

    <Informative text>
    This rule applies to instructions, declarations, successive groups of
    formal arguments, and many other Repetition constructs.  IT DOES NOT
    REY ON THE LAYOUT OF THE SOFTWARE.  ...

(my emphasis; in the original only the word "layout" is emphasised)
    
I don't think the persuasion stuck.

	However, the issue was never presented to the NICE language committee.
	
As far as I can tell, you don't *need* a special hack for newlines in this
case; all you have to do is _wait_ a bit in the parser.