Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:

> Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> 
> Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbolsmostcertainly
> doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus
> aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould
> putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext
> Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere
> youareSemicolonsarethesamething
> 
> (Fixed that for you!)

Having no spaces is not comparable to having no semicolons, because newlines are kept.
Better to have a little more complex parser than putting the burden of adding the correct semicolons on the programmers.

Bye,
bearophile