fortran to C converter

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In article <12716 at lanl.gov> jlg at lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>Most people put _one_ statement per line,

No.  Most people put AT MOST one statement per line.  Many times, due
to indentation, long variable names, etc., it is not possible to put a
whole statement on just one line.  Heck, even your beloved FORTRAN
allows you to split lines (a minus sugn in the sixth column, I
believe).

>so the use of _both_ semicolon and carriage return as statement terminators
>seems redundant.

That's why carriage returns AREN'T statement terminators.

>Why does C choose to ignore the "wrong" one?

Using carriage returns as statement terminators leads to much trickier
rules for line continuation.  For example:  is

	x = 1
	-y

one statement or two?  It's not obvious which should be better (please,
let's NOT debate it).

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