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> They are not issues in Go, but Walter is strongly against 
> optional semicolons, as bearophile said. Me and others (like 
> you) like optional semicolons, but since Walter doesn't and 
> it's his language, that will not change.
>
> I personally understand much better the code without 
> semicolons, like in Ruby and Python. And making a parser that 
> way isn't that much difficult, and error recovery is as 
> powerful.

Yes, I don't expect anyone to change their opinion though frankly 
the anti-groups opinions feel more like attachment to the status 
quo than something that's evidently and demonstrably superior.

It seems a pity that D is achieving such power and elegance in 
some areas while failing to take on some of the syntactic beauty 
that is within reach. The ultimate language would look something 
like D crossed with Go in my eyes. It would be interesting if 
someone were able to make a D subset that showed what it could 
look like. There is significant value to being easy to read and 
write, making the language naturally more appealing for users 
just as speed makes applications much more attractive to users.