While breaking the input into tokens,
the next token is the longest sequence of characters that form a
valid token.
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<h3 id="Semicolons">Semicolons</h3>

<p>
The formal grammar uses semicolons <code>";"</code> as terminators in
a number of productions. Go programs may omit most of these semicolons
using the following two rules:
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