Should not they have used . to end a statement. They could use -> to call a method. Was this just a oversight? Or there is some deeper going on here?
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Should not they have used . to end a statement. They could use -> to call a method. Was this just a oversight? Or there is some deeper going on here?
Java picked the semicolon to have a syntax similar to C and C++.
C++ picked it to have a syntax similar to C.
And I would guess that C picked the semicolon because B, ALGOL and Pascal already used it, and there was no reason not to use an already accepted convention.