(when) is the ; required?

From: John (perl.org_at_jpw3.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:57:19 -0700
To: beginners@perl.org

I was just updating some old script and found a big switch full of
one-liners. In one of the cases there is no ";". Why doesn't the
interpreter flag that as a syntax error?

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