Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[BCS]

Hello aJ,

> Why not eliminate the requirement for semicolon statement terminators
> (unless there are multiple statements per line)? Less typing is
> "more"!
> 

For the same reason error correction bits are not removed from transmission 
lines; that is because the redundancy has some very nice effects when it 
comes to detecting and dealing with errors. Also, having a language that 
is whitespace aware has issues and in this cases the upside is to small.