Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[AJ]

"Mike James" <foo at bar.com> wrote in message 
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>I say we should get rid of vowels - it worked for the ancient egyptians :-)
>
>> Next thing you know someone will propose eliminating braces and just
>> using whitespace to denote blocks. It's utter madness.
>
> Or get rid of all the visible chars and use Whitespace...
>
> http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
>

Until editors/IDEs become Whitespace-aware, I wouldn't recommend using 
Whitespace: one click on "Save" in an editor that converts tabs into spaces 
and your code is gone. (I was so mad when that happened enough times that I 
went back to C++).