Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"AJ" <aj at nospam.net> wrote in message news:hbqaiq$1fnl$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> "Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> wrote in message 
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>> In D you use the dot like that to access globals, cf. the comment in 
>> KennyTM~s example.
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> So much for attracting C++ users by not making D foreign to them.

You're right. It should have been made exactly like C++, no differences. 
Making a new language like that wouldn't be pointless at all.