Chapter 10: On-Site Wastewater Treatment. 1  community or private drinking water supplies are not threatened; 2  direct human exposure is not possible; 3  waste is inaccessible to vectors, insects, rodents, or other possible carriers; 4  all environmental laws and regulations are complied with; and. 5  odor or aesthetic nuisances are not created.
The last major use of the comma, semicolon, and period hierarchy is in Erlang (1986), where commas separate expressions; semicolons separate clauses, both for control flow and for function clauses; and periods terminate statements, such as function definitions or module attributes, not the entire program.
It's no accident that a semicolon is a period atop a comma. Like commas, semicolons indicate an audible pauseâslightly longer than a comma's, but short of a period's full stop. Semicolons have other functions, too. But first, a caveat: avoid the common mistake of using a semicolon to replace a colon (see the Colons section). Incorrect: I have one goal; to find her.