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  • January 4, 2014 at 11:04 am

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    Lynn Pettis (1/4/2014)

    Okay, I was just curious as it is a pet peeve of mine. The semicolon is a statement terminator not a statement begininator.

    BWAAA-HAAAA!!!! The use of semicolons at all used to be a pet peeve of mine and still kinda is. I love it when some programming language comes back at me and basically states "Error... you're missing a semicolon at line #nnn". Great... if the language is that bloody smart, why does it need a semicolon to begin with. 😉

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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