[swift-evolution] Proposal to remove semicolons

[Colin Cornaby]

It does seem odd there is a large focus on removing C style language features from Swift, but that the semi colon is still around.

I'd be in favor of making them invalid syntax on single statement lines. It reduces confusion/code style arguments. I've stopped using them in Swift. They don't do anything on single statement lines, why bother?

On Dec 14, 2015, at 10:04 AM, Arthur Ariel Sabintsev via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

I'm also game for making them invalid syntax. 

The only time I've seen `;` in my code is from my old Obj-C habit.

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:25 PM Austin Zheng via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
Semicolons are already optional at the end of lines and only required to separate multiple statements on the same line (and for C for loops, but changing the grammar of those or removing them is a different topic.

If your proposal is to make a semicolon at the end of a single line invalid syntax, that's fine with me, although it seems like an unnecessarily small change to the grammar (and something better handled by a linter). If your proposal is to remove the semicolon as a way to separate multiple statements on the single line, then -1.

Austin

> On Dec 13, 2015, at 6:12 AM, João Nunes via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I submitted a PR with a proposal to remove the swift end of line semicolons.
>
> It was rejected because i didn't discuss it here. So here i'm discussing it :)
>
> My proposal is simple: remove the semicolons in the end of lines.
> It isn't needed and makes the code ugly.
> It must be decided wether to use it or not for every project we start in the coding style.
>
> What do you think?
>
> João Nunes
>
>
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