Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

BCS wrote:
> Hello bearophile,
> 
>> BCS:
>>
>>> - it allows long code lines to be folded
>>>
>> This is not a problem, when you have optional semicolons, you add some
>> syntax to fold long lines. Python uses \ Mathematica uses \\ and so
>> on. Languages like Scala, Boo, Genie, etc seem able to survive.
> 
> The only one of those in common use is Python and its not a good date 
> point because of all the other whitespace stuff it does (it's in a 
> category all its own).
> 
	Ruby?

> Also line continuation Is just ugly. (And before you ask, no, I don't 
> think semicolons are ugly)
> 
	I think both semicolons and line continuation are ugly. However, 
when you have mandatory semicolons they are *everywhere*. OTOH line 
continuations are very rare, especially since in Python they are 
only needed in case of ambiguity so you can write:

some_long_function_name (some_long_argument_name,
                          some_other_long_argument_name)

		Jerome
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