Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbolsmostcertainly
>>> doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus
>>> aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould
>>> putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext
>>> Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere
>>> youareSemicolonsarethesamething
>>
>>     And how it that any better:
>>
>> If;the;point;isnt;plain;obvious;from;the;above;fewer;symbols;most;certainly; 
>>
>> does;NOT;mean;a;language;is;necessarily;easier;to;parse;Symbols;give;us;
>> a;parsing;anchor;periods;in;a;sentence;arent;strictly;necessary;we;could;
>> put;one;per;line;or;just;figure;out;where;they;belong;by;parsing;the;context; 
>>
>> But;thats;fairly;obviously;much;harder;than;using;periods;to;follow;where; 
>>
>> you;are;Semicolons;are;the;same;thing;
> 
> I can read the ; version several times faster than the first.

	And what about the spaces version? After all, nobody suggested 
removing *all* separation between statements like you did, just 
*redundant* separation.

		Jerome
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