[swift-evolution] Proposal to remove semicolons

Sune Foldager cyano at me.com
Mon Dec 14 14:57:20 CST 2015


> From: Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>
> Subject: Re: [swift-evolution] Proposal to remove semicolons
> Date: 14 December 2015 at 20:01:00 GMT+1
> To: Colin Cornaby <colin.cornaby at mac.com>
> Cc: swift-evolution at swift.org, joao3001 at hotmail.com
> 
> There are two different topics here, and I’d suggest exploring them separately.
> 
> - The semicolon within a line is a expressivity feature.

Yes, and it’s also useful for shell one-liners like "swift <(echo ‘some; swift; statements’)” (is there an option I’m missing to avoid the shell trick?). I am against removing them.

-Sune

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