Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[AJ]

"AJ" <aj at nospam.net> wrote in message news:hbodvl$c1d$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:hbo88h$1qk$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> AJ wrote:
>>> Walter, do you write at all? If so, why not take a breather and write an 
>>> article about this, given that you have direct experience in addition to 
>>> opinion on the topic? :)
>>
>> I write an awful lot - blogs, documentation, articles, presentations, 
>> etc. The ; debate, though, is a very old and tired one, and makes me 
>> tired just thinking about it :-) So many much more interesting things to 
>> write about.
>>
>> Bottom line: yes, there is a case both ways. Nobody will be convinced to 
>> change sides. Both can be made to work. There's nothing new to say about 
>> it.
>
> How about just a list of pros and cons for each? Or even, just the 
> esoteric things that you as an implementer may already know that the 
> layman doesn't?
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>

 Semicolons As Statement Terminators On Single-Statement Lines

 Pros:

 1. Makes parsing of certain (they need to be listed) constructs easier (how 
much?) (?).
2. Adds redundancy which helps diagnose and isolate the following common 
programming errors:
    A.
    B.


 Cons:

 1. Makes source code less comprehensible.
 2. Is redundant with the newline designator.
 3. Is more typing.
 4.