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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, you can end a statement in C or C++ as well.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And, dare I say it, Javascript.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What the fuck? There are children here. Don't say shit like that.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

or begin a comment in Inno

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What about Applesoft BASIC? Because I was pretty good at that on my Apple II, but I don't think there were semicolons.

Also, I don't know how to code, so I don't know what semicolons are for in code.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

BASIC statements end on new lines. The language does use a semicolon at the end of PRINT statements in order to omit printing a newline character at the end, but I believe that's the only use. (It's been about 20 years since I've done anything in BASIC.)

The meaning of a semicolon depends completely on the language. C and C-like languages (like Java and Rust) tend to use them to delimit the end of a statement.