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- Subject: Re: A few little questions
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:31:45 -0200 (EDT)
>5. What are the "syntactic reasons" for forcing break and return to occur at
>the end of a block? (Sorry if this was already answered, but I couldn't find
>it; a message number would suffice!)
One reason is that semicollons are optional and thus render code such as
return
a()
ambiguous, because it is parsed as "return a()".
--lhf
