Semicolons or just OCD

[Doc Trins O'Grace]

I tend to write my awk programs using a semicolon at the end of every statement. I think I picked up this habit using C and Java. I noticed that in the examples I see from you all here, that this practice appears to only occur when multiple statements are placed on the same line. I tend to do this in Perl as well.

Are there any advantages or disadvantages to this habitude?

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <de32d077-6a61-4cfd...@googlegroups.com>,

AWK is classically a line-oriented language (unlike those other languages
you mentioned). Thus, it looks ugly and uncouth to put in semicolons at
the ends of the lines. It makes you look like a refugee from another
language.

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b w r w g y b r y b

[Ed Morton]

On 12/8/2015 11:01 AM, Doc Trins O'Grace wrote:
> I tend to write my awk programs using a semicolon at the end of every statement. I think I picked up this habit using C and Java. I noticed that in the examples I see from you all here, that this practice appears to only occur when multiple statements are placed on the same line. I tend to do this in Perl as well.
>
> Are there any advantages or disadvantages to this habitude?
>

advantages: if/when in some highly unusual situation you decide to change your
multi-line script to a single line you do not need to add sem-colons.

disadvantages: to quote from the movie Fargo: it's kinda funny-looking.

IMHO - don't do it or people will think you don't know awk.

Ed.