Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[AJ]

"Christopher Wright" <dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:hboivs$l8g$1 at digitalmars.com...
> AJ wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> news:hbo88h$1qk$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> AJ wrote:
>>>> Walter, do you write at all? If so, why not take a breather and write 
>>>> an article about this, given that you have direct experience in 
>>>> addition to opinion on the topic? :)
>>> I write an awful lot - blogs, documentation, articles, presentations, 
>>> etc. The ; debate, though, is a very old and tired one, and makes me 
>>> tired just thinking about it :-) So many much more interesting things to 
>>> write about.
>>>
>>> Bottom line: yes, there is a case both ways. Nobody will be convinced to 
>>> change sides. Both can be made to work. There's nothing new to say about 
>>> it.
>>
>> How about just a list of pros and cons for each? Or even, just the 
>> esoteric things that you as an implementer may already know that the 
>> layman doesn't?
>
> If you're trying to catch C/C++ coders, you need semicolons.

I'm a C++ user, and I asked the question!

> If they're optional in some circumstances,

Rather, required in some circumstances.

> that will lead to recommendations that you always include them in case the 
> code changes to require them.

I didn't know D sought to lure people away from other languages! Not that I 
think keeping something unnecessary (if it is so) in their language is the 
way to attract them.

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