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

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/3/2016 10:45 PM, ag0aep6g wrote:
> D doesn't have that kind of redundancy either here. For the compiler to
> catch errors, it would have to mind both punctuation and whitespace. But
> whitespace is purely cosmetic in D. Programmers might be alarmed when
> they see a mismatch, but the compiler doesn't care.

The grammar is redundant, not the whitespace.