Comments on: Long Live the Semicolon and Why I Love it!

By: Carno

Carno — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:37:21 +0000

David Lucke has a point, I am a VB.Net coder too and “;” is not required.

By: David Lucke

David Lucke — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:50:22 +0000

I’ve never been able to understand why the semicolon is loved so much. Its an extra character to type that performs no function. You’re already going to use a carriage return at the end of the line. Why isn’t that sufficient? Sure, you sometimes want to continue the same statement on a separate line because its so long, or something. But that’s fairly rare, so why not use a continuation character for that instead of requiring an extra character on every single line?

By: Helltime for October 26 « I Built His Cage

Helltime for October 26 « I Built His Cage — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:08:28 +0000

[...] fun post by Peter Kellner sings the praises of the semi-colon and indentation-neutral languages in general. I tend to agree. Dittohead programmers (yes we exist) [...]

By: Veera

Veera — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:03 +0000

I like the semi-colons too. All the languages, in which I’ve worked, are using ‘;’ for terminating a statement. the usage of ‘;’ gives me a logical break between more than one statement. if it’s not a ‘;’, i found it hard to understand the code.

By: Giorgio Sironi

Giorgio Sironi — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:23:18 +0000

There are great examples (Python) of indentation usage instead of semicolons. Though, if your code is well-written it does not have many levels of indentation and this controversy is less important.

By: BlackWasp

BlackWasp — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:22:02 +0000

I love those semicolons. So much so, I add them every time I have to write a bit of VB. VB doesn’t like them so much though;

By: Jef Claes

Jef Claes — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:44:50 +0000

In College, I learned a language called PL/1 (long forgotten) that required semi-colons. I remember the compiler would constantly spit out errors saying “Maybe you have missed your semi-colon?”

–> When learning Java for the first time in school, after knowing Visual Basic, those semicolons annoyed me so bad. Now I love them as well. It’s even hard to chat without ending every sentence with a semicolon;