Semicolon used in a sentence

Semicolon in a sentence as a noun

Even within the Rails crowd, this "no semicolons" thing is fairly recent.

Well, we do know that the guy at Twitter that works on their bootstrap is anti-semicolon, so I would say its likely both.

I think there's a strong case for JS to not insert semicolons here, and I agree with Crockford's position on not handling it in JSMin.

Conveniently enough, Ruby does not require semicolons at the end of statements.

I noticed they were showing standard busybox ping output, so I tried out the basics: semicolons, ampersands, etc.

As far as i understand the semicolon is just an expression separator like in Erlang and Pascal.

I suspect this anti-semicolon fervor may come from a desire to use Ruby's conventions with JavaScript.

In contrast, the semicolon is a statement terminator in C. C uses the comma for expression separation.

Expect to see a large push from advertisers in the form of articles like "why I like semicolon" and "can your language do this with only 5 characters?".

I believe this will revitalize the semicolon industry.

They seemed to be throwing a null in at the first instance of a semicolon or other special characters, cutting off your command and preventing exploitation.

Pessimists however are speculating that it is too little to late, and are advising shorts on semicolons in 6-10 hours, after the initial news leaves the front page.

With the release of this language, some analysts are suggesting a surge in semicolon production, and the commodities markets show q4 semicolon futures at the best they've been in 14 months.

But that doesn't change the fact that the omit-the-semicolons position is absurdly immature hipster posturing that serves no engineering purpose.

In fact several major semicolon foundries were mothballed since the housing crash - the legalese markets were just not there any more, and lack of derivative generation really hurt the suppliers.

Javascript does automatic semicolon insertion by taking advantage of potentially ambiguous constructs that happen to be resolved in one way right now.

Do you have all the operator precedences memorized, or do you use superfluous parentheses because you're not always sure?It's true that the semicolon is not needed, and it's true that the minifier is breaking code.

This goes a long way for a developer that misplaced a semicolon or is attempting to use a const variable into some Boost code that expects a non-const variable thereby causing thousands of lines of template errors to be thrown.\n2.

* Since the majority of JavaScript syntax is intended to mimic Java syntax, which does require semicolons to separate statements, semicolons blend well with the language, and are therefore nice and idiomatic.

Language extension usually works this way: a previously unambiguously wrong statement is made valid; but JS semicolon insertion often turns "wrong" statements into "correct" statements, so it leaves less "entropy" to be taken advantage of when increasing the power of the syntax.

I'm still doing almost everything in Python and whenever Javascript bitches at me about a missed semicolon I do think: "All these fantastic things you can do in a web browser these days and you couldn't figure out that this command in an entirely different line isn't part of the previous line?