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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat

{} are called braces (or curly brackets). And the 'do' and 'until' keywords are all lowercase. 'Loop' is not in the language at all.

Did you mean this to be pseudocode? If so, say as much. This isn't C, as it stands.


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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat

And in Pascal the ; character separates statements rather than terminating them - this is one of its more annoying features.


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Boozkachu

Then what terminates statements in Pascal?


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