[Issue 327] Compiler accepts ';' by itself as a statement

[Stewart Gordon]

d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=327
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> bugzilla at digitalmars.com changed:
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>              Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
>          Resolution|                            |INVALID
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> ------- Comment #6 from bugzilla at digitalmars.com  2006-11-19 14:32 -------
> Both DebugStatement and VersionStatement allow a ';' as a statement, as both
> have Statement in the grammar, and Statement includes ';'. In other words, this
> is not a bug as the spec matches the implementation. If you want to change it,
> it should be marked as an enhancement request, not a bug.

Regardless of the obviousness that leaving it specified this way was a 
slip-up?

> As to why allow empty statements, 1) such are common in C like languages and
> are expected to be there

Expected by whom?

> and 2) they are 'boundary' or 'degenerate' cases and
> can be handy to have as markers, placeholders, or to just make it easier for
> programs that generate source code as output. They don't hurt anything.

Hmm....

Stewart.

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