why ; ?

[janderson]

Tomasz Sowinski wrote:
> Just another feature thought. Never gonna happen, but still...
> 
> What's the reason of having lines end with a semicolon? Anything else than a legacy issue with C/C++?
> 
> The only thing I can think of is having multiple statements in one line, but that only makes code unreadable. Wouldn't getting rid of ; improve readability?
> 
> 
> Tomek

This has been discussed before. Apparently Walter even tried it for a 
scripting language with not so good results.

-Joel