Hi,

On 1/13/07, Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it really be enough to raise the precedence of ; higher
> than that of if/then?  Is there any reason this hasn't been done already?

and

On 1/13/07, David Baelde <david.baelde@gmail.com> wrote:
> It may be useful to note that some people might want to write code like:
>
> foo ;
> x <- if y then a else b ;
> bar ;
>
> In that example bar is really meant to be outside the if-then-else.


I think the biggest consern is that the else clause is optional. So
you can write code like this:

  if condition then do_something (); (* no trailing else clause *)
  do_something_else (); (* this is outside the if expression ')
  ...etc...