what does ; actually do

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Received: by 10.150.121.6 with SMTP id t6mr639838ybc.21.1230685478857; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:04:38 -0800 (PST)Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:04:38 -0800 (PST)X-IP: 98.14.251.236User-Agent: G2/1.0X-Google-Token: 497mMwwAAADy_v7Cg7JLJ6jdVezOSY15X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5; Google-TR-3) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)Message-ID: <59ffaaf4-4c6e-49c7-8a17-7ab2bc6d97ee@p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com>Subject: what does ; actually doFrom: roy nyc <roy.lowrance>To: “Kdb+ Personal Developers” X-Google-Approved: charlie@kx.com via web at 2008-12-31 07:00:32I’m new to Q and trying to figure out how it works.Is “;” implemented in the parser or at run-time?What does this operator actually do?Thanks!</roy.lowrance>

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It’s a separator in the same way ; is in java (and , is in java methods)

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> (and , is in java methods)

I meant java method signatures, where , is used to separate params (; is used to separate params in a lambda in q).