Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

[HaraldZealot via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 03:48:09 UTC, Joe Duarte wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a social scientist and I'm preparing some studies on the 
> effects of programming language syntax on learning, motivation 
> to pursue programming, as well as any disproportionate effects 
> that PL syntax has on the appeal of programming to women (more 
> on the latter in a separate post).
>
> [...]

And D-specific syntax for range-based algorithms often also 
clearer in multi-line form:

```d
stdin
         .byLineCopy
         .array
         .sort!((a, b) => a > b) // descending order
         .each!writeln;
```

(current snapshot from main page ;) )