> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> I've always wondered why plpgsql is so nitpickingly insistent on finding
> >> a semicolon after the last END. Would anyone object if I made the
> >> last semi optional?
>
> > C requires the termination. I assume our languages should too.
>
> I don't think that analogy holds water at all, since plpgsql is not
> C and doesn't emulate C's syntax very closely. Even if you accept
> the analogy, what we're discussing here is a semicolon after the end
> of a function body, which C does not expect you to write --- so the
> analogy favors omitting it, not requiring it.
Yes, good point. Also, the end of the string is clearly marking the
_end_, so of like EOF.
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