why ; ?

[Janice Caron]

Z008/5/8 Gilles G. <schaouette at free.fr>:
>  > As numerous examples have shown, it is perfectly
>  > possible for the compiler to misinterpret the programmers intent, and
>  > produce code that does completely the wrong thing.
>  >
>  In Python, nearly every time you need a long line, there are already parentheses in the expression, so you don't need to escape the new line.

So if I mistype, and accidently fail to match parenthesis, the
compiler can't detect it, and instead goes ploughing on, tying to
compile through the next few statements. When it finally reaches a
point where it can't parse any more, it will have no idea exactly
where it got lost in the first place.