breaking the ; habit

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 21:08:52 -0500, R. O'Neil <deathbed_tech at usa.net>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

> Wow that's nice.  Is that something that's standard for the language or is
> it just a nice feature in the most common interpreters?
> 
	It's a side-effect...

	The ";" is used to separate statements on a single line.

	Therefore, using a ";" at the end of each statement is
effectively adding a null/empty statement immediately following

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