Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support.

* NEWS: The semicolon feature is no longer active for newer languages,
so don't claim that it causes trouble for them.

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+2008-12-11  Joel E. Denny  <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu>
+
+       Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support.
+       * NEWS: The semicolon feature is no longer active for newer languages,
+       so don't claim that it causes trouble for them.
+
 2008-12-11  Joel E. Denny  <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu>
 
        * gnulib: Update submodule to HEAD.

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     exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
 
-  This prevents the future support for languages that do not use `;'
-  as C/C++/Java do.  Yet some grammars still depend on this `feature'.
-  Bison 2.4.1 restores the previous behavior in the case of C output
-  (specifically, when neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent
-  command-line options are used) to leave more time for grammars
-  depending on the old behavior to be adjusted.  Future releases of
-  Bison will disable this feature.
+  Some grammars still depend on this `feature'.  Bison 2.4.1 restores
+  the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when
+  neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options
+  are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old
+  behavior to be adjusted.  Future releases of Bison will disable this
+  feature.
 
 ** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.