Perl Christmas Quiz

Philip Newton philip.newton at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 13:08:57 GMT 2008


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 13:43, Abigail <abigail at abigail.be> wrote:
> The professor [1] who taught us Pascal in university treated ';'s to
> *start* statements with:
>
>
>    BEGIN do_this
>        ; do_that
>        ; more_things
>        ; yada_yada_yada
>    END

Ah, yes - I've seen that style before, too, though seldomly.

And, recently, a similar thing in SQL:

SELECT
  this
  , that
  , theother
FROM
  tablename
  , othertable
WHERE
  foo = bar
  OR hello = world
;

Cheers,
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>


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