Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

"Jérôme M. Berger" jeberger at free.fr
Thu Oct 22 11:22:46 PDT 2009


Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 05:05:04PM -0500, AJ wrote:
>>> Why not eliminate the requirement for semicolon statement terminators 
>>> (unless there are multiple statements per line)? Less typing is "more"! 
>>
>> It looks wrong, breaks habit, opens up bizarre parsing corner cases,
>> and makes error messages uglier.
>>
>> Next thing you know someone will propose eliminating braces and just
>> using whitespace to denote blocks. It's utter madness.
> 
> Yay, Ruby! (almost)
> 
> I started to use it some days ago and I feel in love with it.

	Well, Python! (no almost about it ;)

		Jerome
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