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    -1 yes, being "forced" to learn the language due to compiler gotchas went out of style with C++. Also, there's little evidence behind the assertions, which I would want for an answer with such biased tone. Commented Aug 27, 2013 at 16:42
  • (1) What @Telastyn said -- if you really want to learn a language this way, get a cat, they love sitting on keyboards because they care about your education. (2) Omitting semicolons have nothing to do with clean style or encouraging it -- if anything, dropping semicolons is hiding the fact that these are separate statements that are executed sequentially, and possibly have side-effects. Leaving semicolons in makes you aware of that and therefore prefer a more functional style. The decision is therefore purely syntactic (eg, style, parsing, etc). Commented Aug 16, 2016 at 7:29
  • While the "forced to learn language" doesn't fly, "using the language as its authors intend" and "as most other developers use it" are important reference points. Maintaining consistent style between multiple developers is useful. From both this answer and from @Killan Foth's, the maintainers and most developers apparently view the semicolon as extraneous. Commented May 23, 2018 at 21:16