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MiniScript statements are separated by line breaks rather than explicit punctuation (such as the semicolon in C). It is nonetheless possible to break a long MiniScript statement into multiple lines, by placing the line break immediately after any of:

* an opening <c>(</c>, <c>[</c>, or <c>{</c>
* a comma or colon: <c>,</c> or <c>:</c>
* any binary [[Operators|operator]]: <c>+</c>, <c>-</c>, <c>and</c>, <c>or</c>, etc.

== Example ==
<ms>x = {
"foo": "A commonly used variable name in example code",
"bar":
"A second commonly used example variable name" }</ms>

Note that the final <c>}</c> in this example cannot be put on the next line, since it does not follow one of the special line-continuing tokens.

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@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 * any binary [[Operators|operator]]: <c>+</c>, <c>-</c>, <c>and</c>, <c>or</c>, etc.
-== Example ==
+== Examples ==
 <ms>x = {
       "foo": "A commonly used variable name in example code",
@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
          "A second commonly used example variable name" }</ms>
-Note that the final <c>}</c> in this example cannot be put on the next line, since it does not follow one of the special line-continuing tokens.
+Note that the final <c>}</c> in this example is placed on the same line as the last enty.  As an alternative, when writing a multi-line list or map, you can put the closing <c>]</c> or <c>}</c> on its own line by appending a <c>,</c> to the last item, as in the following example.
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JoeStrout at 14:40, 1 April 2024

JoeStrout: Created page with "MiniScript statements are separated by line breaks rather than explicit punctuation (such as the semicolon in C). It is nonetheless possible to break a long MiniScript statem..."