<div dir="ltr">The author of the proposal explicitly states that the proposal is about semicolons <b>at the end of the line</b>.<div>Any discussion about semicolons in other locations is therefor likely unnecessary.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I would be against removing semi-colons. <div><br></div><div>Semicolons can be used poorly, for example, terminating lines due to C-style coding habits. Semicolons can be used well, for example, grouping related tasks together, such as combining alloc with its defer{free} counterpart. The former can be caught with de-linting. The latter offers a valuable tool.</div><div><br></div><div>Poor style we will always have. Removing single-line statement grouping offers no measurable gain at a real cost.<div><br></div><div>-- Erica</div><div><br><div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Dec 14, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Charles Constant via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">> semicolon within a line is a expressivity feature.<br><div><br></div><div>I don't care if they're invalid as a terminator for lines with *single* statements. It would feel annoyingly restrictive to program in a language where you can never use two statements on the same line. Even Python allows that! </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Sune Foldager via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(127,127,127,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Chris Lattner <<a href="mailto:clattner@apple.com" target="_blank">clattner@apple.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(127,127,127,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Re: [swift-evolution] Proposal to remove semicolons</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(127,127,127,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">14 December 2015 at 20:01:00 GMT+1<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(127,127,127,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Colin Cornaby <<a href="mailto:colin.cornaby@mac.com" target="_blank">colin.cornaby@mac.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(127,127,127,1.0)"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>, <a href="mailto:joao3001@hotmail.com" target="_blank">joao3001@hotmail.com</a><br></span></div><span><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>There are two different topics here, and I’d suggest exploring them separately.</div><div><br></div><div>- The semicolon within a line is a expressivity feature.</div></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>-Sune</div><div><br></div></div>
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