Re: space vs semicolon - why syntax error with the former ? (octave-3.4.2)

[Macy]

Back in July [July, 15, 16, 17th] in response to your request for examples of 
using free software for Product Development for HPC, I sent numerous emails, 
both with attached examples and plain emails requesting receipt confirmation.

Have heard no responses.  Is your email account blocking me?  Is HPC legitmate?

Regards,
Robert

--- address@hidden wrote:

From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: space vs semicolon - why syntax error with the former ?    
(octave-3.4.2)
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:40:16 -0500

A newline is the end of a statement. If you want to end statements in
the same line, you use semicolons or commas. You always use semicolons
if you want to end a statement and not echo its result and commas if
you don't.

Octave is hardly the only language that works this way; bash comes to
mind as another language where you need to write, e.g.

     for i in *; do foo $i; done; echo "done"

and if you miss the semicolon after done, it's a syntax error in bash,
similar to Octave.

HTH,
- Jordi G. H.
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