Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

AJ aj at nospam.net
Thu Oct 22 12:55:02 PDT 2009


"Ali Cehreli" <acehreli at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:hbqcvd$1ku4$1 at digitalmars.com...
> AJ Wrote:
>
>> Why not eliminate the requirement for semicolon statement terminators
>> (unless there are multiple statements per line)? Less typing is "more"!
>
> A number of times in this thread, you claimed that you were not proposing 
> anything but merely asking "Why?".
>
> You may have very well intended that, but your two statements above form a 
> proposal. At least for the English speaking people in Silicon Valley, they 
> do... When followed by that incomplete phrase, it forms a proposal.
>
> Considering almost infinite "why not" proposals one might bring, yours is 
> as silly as any other.
>
> Also, I will not guess what you mean with "more" of less typing. I know 
> that removing semicolons would have "more typing" of the backspace key for 
> people coming from any language that currently requires semicolon.
>
> Ali
>

Read what I mean, not what I say. 





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