Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:42:31PM -0500, AJ wrote:
	The OP was not about "symbols"
	It was specifically about semicolons as statement terminators on \
	single-statement lines
		Your defending argument was 
			Well its more than less typing
			The biggest boon is time to comprehend the mind can \
			parse less symbols faster
		That argument just doesnt hold water

	 Well, if they were "the same thing", they wouldn't be something else \
	 , now would they?
	 	The point is that symbols serve as both a visual anchor and \
		a parsing anchor for the compiler
		You can quickly scan longer statements for a semicolon ( \
		or a period in prose) to see where it ends
		Periods and semicolons might be different symbols, but \
		they serve exactly the same purpose
		Whitespace simply doesn't do a very good job

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