why ; ?

[Robert Fraser]

Tomasz Sowinski wrote:
> Just another feature thought. Never gonna happen, but still...
> 
> What's the reason of having lines end with a semicolon? Anything else than a legacy issue with C/C++?
> 
> The only thing I can think of is having multiple statements in one line, but that only makes code unreadable. Wouldn't getting rid of ; improve readability?
> 
> 
> Tomek

So the end of a statement would be marked by a newline character a la 
Python?

I usually like to keep my lines under 80 characters long for 
readability, and occasionally have long statements (especially if 
there's a ternary operator in there somewhere), so my vote is "nay". 
There are various other arguments against it, too (especially in that it 
makes parsing easier).