Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[Max Samukha]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:09:01 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

>Max Samukha wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:21:25 +0200, bambo <ba at m.bo> wrote:
>> 
>>> Walter Bright schrieb:
>>>> Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbolsmostcertainly
>>>> doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus
>>>> aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould
>>>> putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext
>>>> Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere
>>>> youareSemicolonsarethesamething
>>>>
>>>> (Fixed that for you!)
>>> Walter, what a remarkable proove the semicolon helps us all a lot!
>>> You are sooooo BRIGHT! You are so creative and intelligent!
>>>
>>> I LOVE YOU!
>> 
>> This is one of Walter's proofs that don't prove anything. Spaces
>> between words are *not redundant*.
>
>In Chinese they are.
>
>Andrei

You are right.