Statements
Programming language statements typically have conventions for:
- statement separators;
- statement terminators; and
- line continuation
A statement separator is used to demarcate boundaries between two separate statements. A statement terminator is used to demarcate the end of an individual statement. Line continuation is a convention in languages where the newline character could potentially be misinterpreted as a statement terminator. In such languages, it allows a single statement to span more than just one line.
| Language | Statement separator/terminator | Secondary separator |
|---|---|---|
| ABAP | period separated | |
| Ada | semicolon terminated | |
| ALGOL | semicolon separated | |
| ALGOL 68 | semicolon and comma separated | |
| AppleScript | newline terminated | |
| AutoHotkey | newline terminated | |
| BASIC | newline terminated | colon |
| Boo | newline terminated | |
| C | semicolon terminates statements | comma separates expressions |
| C++ | semicolon terminates statements | comma separates expressions |
| C# | semicolon terminated | |
| COBOL | period separated | |
| Cobra | newline terminated | |
| D | semicolon terminated | |
| Eiffel | newline terminated | semicolon |
| Erlang | colon separated, period terminated | |
| Falcon | newline separated | |
| Fortran | newline terminated | semicolon |
| Forth | ? | whitespace |
| GFA BASIC | newline terminated | |
| Go | semicolon separated (inserted by compiler) | |
| Haskell (in do-notation) | semicolon separated | |
| Haskell (in do-notation, when braces are omitted) | newline separated | |
| Java | semicolon terminated | |
| JavaScript | semicolon separated (but sometimes implicitly inserted on newlines) | |
| Lua | whitespace separated (semicolon optional) | |
| Mathematica | semicolon separated | |
| MATLAB | newline terminated | semicolon or comma |
| Object Pascal (Delphi) | semicolon separated | |
| Objective-C | semicolon terminated | |
| OCaml | semicolon separated | |
| Pascal | semicolon separated | |
| Perl | semicolon separated | |
| PHP | semicolon terminated | |
| Prolog | period terminated | |
| Python | newline terminated | semicolon |
| Ruby | newline terminated | semicolon |
| Scala | newline terminated (semicolon optional) | semicolon |
| Seed7 | semicolon separated (semicolon termination is allowed) | |
| Simula | semicolon separated | |
| S-Lang | semicolon separated | |
| Smalltalk | period separated | |
| Standard ML | semicolon separated | |
| Visual Basic | newline terminated | |
| Visual Basic .NET | newline terminated | |
| Windows PowerShell | newline terminated | semicolon separated |
| Language | Statement separator/terminator | Secondary separator |
Read more about this topic: Comparison Of Programming Languages (syntax)
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