Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[Rainer Deyke]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> This only leaves the possibility of removing semicolons entirely. This
> would mandate newlines as separators instead. Then you'd need a
> different character to negate newlines. The C/C++ crowd would leave at
> this point, since that's just silly. (Though less typing.)

Trivial solution: use indentation.  If a line is more deeply indented
than the previous line, it's a continuation of the previous statement.

(Of course the people who complain about significant newlines are only
going to scream louder about significant indentation, but you can't
please everybody.)


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