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semicolon: see punctuation punctuation [Lat.,=point], the use of special signs in writing to clarify how words are used; the term also refers to the signs themselves. In every language, besides the sounds of the words that are strung together there are other features, such as tone, accent, and ..... Click the link for more information. . semicolonIn programming, the semicolon (;) is often used to separate various elements of an expression. For example, in the C statement for (x=0; x<10; x++) the semicolons separate the starting value, number of iterations and increment).
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For you ought to stop twice as long at a semicolon as you do at a comma, and you make the longest stops where there ought to be no stop at all. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. It was the big thing out of life he had read to her, not sentence-structure and semicolons. |
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