Re: ';' in declaration lists

Wolfgang Rieger writes:

 > I think therefore, that semicolon should be used as a terminator and
 > the grammar should be changed accordingly.

Actually, both are already allowed. (I'm a Pascal programmer myself,
forced to write C, so I know the problem:-) ). If you look at the
grammar, you'll see that a `declaration' can be empty, so that, e.g.,

    P { ; font-size: 10pt;;; }

contains 5 declarations, 4 of which are empty.



Bert
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Received on Thursday, 2 May 1996 07:25:49 UTC