simplistic misunderstanding about ; + "" in a print

[DSMan195276]

No.  The reason is just ease of translating.

It's actually a behavior difference Imagine instead of string literals you're printing the results of some functions:

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Print func1$(1); func2$(20)

Print func1$(1) + func2$(20)

Those two lines don't behave the same if func2$(20) produces an error - with the first one you'll see the result of func1$(1) on the screen, with the second you won't see anything.

The same logic applies if func2$(20) just doesn't return for an extended time (maybe it has a SLEEP or does a long computation). In the first case you'll see the partial output from func1$(1) on screen, in the other you won't see anything until func2$(20) finishes.