Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 05:05:04PM -0500, AJ wrote:
> Why not eliminate the requirement for semicolon statement terminators 
> (unless there are multiple statements per line)? Less typing is "more"! 

It looks wrong, breaks habit, opens up bizarre parsing corner cases,
and makes error messages uglier.

Next thing you know someone will propose eliminating braces and just
using whitespace to denote blocks. It's utter madness.

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Adam D. Ruppe
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