From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T16:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax checker wtf?

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Martin wrote:
>>> I'll note that perl has a similarly flexible syntax,
>>
>> I don't think so.  For example, you must terminate statements with a 
>> ";"  (or did that change in the latest version?) and you cannot omit 
>> parentheses.
> 
> Both Perl and Ruby allow parenthesis to be dropped in most cases:
> 
>   $ perl -we 'print("Hello world!\n")'
>   Hello world!
>   $ perl -we 'print "Hello world!\n"'
>   Hello world!
> 
> James Edward Gray II

There you can see how long it is that I've used Perl.  :-) But the 
necessary expression termination is still in place, isn't it?

Thanks for the correction, James!

Kind regards

	robert