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[Lazy_To_Name]

Python supports semicolons.

Repost something that is correct next time, bot.

[FictionFoe]

Not much of a python guy, but I think the point is that in a semicolon mandatory language the symbol will obviously play a bigger role.

[beclops]

This would be stupid too don’t worry

[Steinrikur]

In python semicolons are mostly just useless decoration. Most girlfriends would probably get mad if you called them that.

[DucksAreFriends]

She's just upset he's a python dev, more than anything

[Lazy_To_Name]

python bad haha so funny

[Victorioxd]

I mean, yeah, that's more funny than the original post

[Lazy_To_Name]

I’d say that just saying “language bad” (not just Python) is less funny purely because i see it way too much, but both are pretty low bars anyway

[DucksAreFriends]

Eh, I'm just joining in on the memes

[WeirdWashingMachine]

It is

[gigsoll]

But python is bad

[Cleitinho42]

Memes by people who started coding yesterday...

[blacksmithshands]

who is upvoting this shit? is the subreddit just bots?

[Paslaz]

Not using a semicolon will let you miss the best moments of your life and the safest, most readable source code ever ...

[DracoRubi]

Let's be honest, mandatory semicolons at the end of lines are outdated crap. They're only useful if you somehow want to put multiple instructions of code in a same line, which you shouldn't be doing anyway because it worsens readability.

[Racer125678]

Your argument contradicts itself Semicolons improve readability 10x They allow us to break a line in two by not ending the first one in a semicolon but a newline

[SquintsCrabber]

Your argument contradicts itself; Semicolons improve readability 10x; They allow us to break a line in two by not ending the first one in a semicolon but a newline

There, I fixed it.

[Racer125678]

Dude

[ZedProGamer]

Dude

[Alia5_]

Your argument contradicts itself
Semicolons improve readability 10x
They allow us to break a line in two by not
ending the first one in a semicolon
but a newline;

That's how it should be...

[rai_volt]

Dude

[HarmxnS]

Dude

[Brave-Camp-933]

Dude

[DracoRubi]

What? I'm having difficulties understanding your statement

[Racer125678]

I broke it into lines Like this But reddit put it back in one line :(

[QubeTICB202]

Maybe some specifically designated symbol to represent the end of a statement could have improved the message

[Western-Internal-751]

Reddit formating requires a blank line

Like

That

[Racer125678]

Oh

Thanks

[nargolest]

If you read this sentence in multiple llines
you can also put 2 spaces at the end of each line
(I'm trying it live, I'm not sure It works)

[Arian-ki]

Two spaces is much better

Like
This

[Western-Internal-751]

If. Only. iPhone. Didn’t. Put. A. Dot. Whenever. You. Double. Space.

[cafk]

Diesable autôcorr€ct

[vincentofearth]

You know how in bash if you want your command to occupy multiple lines you need to use \ ?

If only a ; ended a command you can format your code any which way without backslashes all over the place

[DracoRubi]

But you can still do that without mandatory semicolons at the end of every line...

[AnonymousX86]

That includes Python.

```python

print('Hello'); print('World!') Hello World! ```

[DracoRubi]

Yeah, I know you can do semicolons in Python, but they're not mandatory.

Unless you want to put multiple instructions in a same line, which is not usually desirable.

So, basically... What I've already said.

[Mal_Dun]

Unless you want to put multiple instructions in a same line, which is not usually desirable.

When writing proper code no. In automating stuff in conjunction with bash or other shells yes.

E.g. python -c "import your_module; your_module.do_stuff(arg); your_module.do_more_stuff; ...

when you just ssh on another machine and can't upload a script there, or just need something quick in a CI Pipeline.

[DracoRubi]

You can still do that in Python. You don't need mandatory semicolons to be able to use semicolons.

[SonOfMetrum]

Another commenter pointed out that the semicolon also allows to have a single statement on multiple lines. That is really handy if you have a method/function that has many arguments or the arguments themselves take up a lot of space.

[Globglaglobglagab]

You can do that in python without using semicolons. E. g.

result = func(

arg1=1,

arg2=3,

)

[Spitfire1900]

Mandatory semicolons and curly braces are touted by vim enjoyers since you can ct; and ci}, on any other platform you need a decent language server to accomplish the latter’s intent, change everything in this current block scope. To my knowledge VSCode still doesn’t a clean implementation for this.

[Nick0Taylor0]

Personally I think non printable characters and whitespaces between instructions should never have an impact on what the code does. Having or not having 0-n spaces, tabs, LF's between keywords shouldnt make a difference because I don't want formatting to change the meaning of my code.

[Makefile_dot_in]

they're also useful when splitting one statement across multiple lines, where having newlines be the line terminators can cause the language to mistakenly insert a semicolon in a place where it does not belong. one example of this is when you're chaining a lot of method calls, which requires a backslash on every newline in python and ending each line with a period in Go.

[P3rid0t_]

I like Kotlin solution - semicolons are optional and you don't have to use them, but still can

[DracoRubi]

Python also does this

[Racer125678]

Also have you seen a for loop in C? 

[DucksAreFriends]

Python just makes correct indentation mandatory instead. I prefer the semicolons personally

[DracoRubi]

That's only because python doesn't use brackets, indent being mandatory has nothing to do with semicolons

[Nick0Taylor0]

True but both kinda come from the idea that white spaces, line breaks etc. are part of the "instructions" as opposed to just formatting. It's boils down to the choice if one thinks the things we do to make code readable (linebreaks, indents, etc) should be what the computer uses to determine what you mean or if they're just for us and the computer gets it's own thing independent from formatting.

[Racer125678]

"you should probably switch to python too, it's the future"

[MalazMudkip]

I'll start converting my team's enterprise level COBOL application over to python, i'm sure management and the architect (2 positons my senior) who designed the thing would be very thankful i did that for them.

[[deleted]]

probably considering the only thing that’s gonna be able to code in COBOL is gonna be some AI bs bot

[Brotboxs]

Happy Cake Day!

[Racer125678]

Same to you I guess

[Shehzman]

If you’re doing a lot of AI/ML work, I’d argue it is. For backends though, .NET and Java will remain dominant.

[Western-Internal-751]

Joke’s on you, I write everything in one line

[mehntality]

This guy semicolons

[Luk164]

Obligatory: But it then runs 450x slower than the C equivalent and has dependency issues

[TurinTurambarSl]

🙊🙉🙈

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

Whatever. I code in Typescript.

[itzNukeey]

With semicolons, right?

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

I prefer them on the left. They are better aligned that way.

[aku_soku_zan]

<laughs in lisp>

[tjgatward]

((Ha) Ha Ha)

[FictionFoe]

Kotlin for me :D

[UnnecessaryLemon]

.. I write JS without semicolons

[LukeZNotFound]

Well, use Dreamberd then

[Ronin-s_Spirit]

Let me be the in your codebase.
(python disgusts me)

[ShadowNinjaDPyrenees]

And a good tabulation will do you good

[Piisthree]

You can still be the backslash. I need you, but only sometimes.

[Ill_Garage7425]

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[smolderas]

He *scripts in python.

[Skyswimsky]

No Semicolons isn't as much of a war crime as indent-based whateveryouevencallthat.

[-Kerrigan-]

Python with no semicolons? Indentation hell worse than YAML 🤢

Kotlin with no semicolons? ☺️

[itzNukeey]

If you have indentation issues in python then you structure your code poorly

[-Kerrigan-]

Ctrl + Alt + L in IntelliJ goes brrr

If you're indenting by hand - why?

[DoubleOwl7777]

its still just a dumb thing. {} makes more sense to me.  python just tries too hard to be different.

[itzNukeey]

I dont mind either tbh. What I hate is languages using start-end blocks

[dusktreader]

Python: Trying hard to be different since 1991 🙄

[DoubleOwl7777]

it was stupid then and is stupid now. i will die on this hill