Optional semi-colons

[mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu]

>For example, the C preprocessor. Having a unique statement terminator frees
>the programmer of worrying where newlines might show up after macro expansion.

Really? What happens if macro expansion results in a string longer
than 509 characters, or an expression several thousands of bytes long?
I have had both of those happen. Serious worries result.

Doug McDonald