I came across "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" this afternoon at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5 and

I came across "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" this afternoon at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5 and thought the whole set was worth posting. More on "syntactic sugar" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar