consequences of removing semicolons in D like in Python

[Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 13:18:24 UTC, eugene wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 13:11:50 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> wrote:
>> On 09/16/2016 07:00 PM, eugene wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> what if to remove semicolons at the end of each line of code 
>>> in D like
>>> in Python?
>>> Is it worth it?
>>
>> Not worth it. Gripes about semicolons are a symptom of only 
>> seeing the superficial and not really understanding enough 
>> about languages to see what really is and isn't important. 
>> It's like dumping someone because you don't like the color of 
>> a dress they wore. Superficial, shallow, inconsequential 
>> bikeshed bullcrap, not even worth debating.
>
> why?
> groovy, for e.g., is ok without semicolons and with semicolons.
> if there is a question of backward compatibility, is it 
> possible to support semicolons?

Can you give a strong technical argument why we should get rid of 
the semicolons?  I personally quite like them, as do others, so I 
don't think "I don't like the looks of them" is a strong 
argument.  What would the language gain by losing the semi-colons.