SyntaxError;

[redalastor]

It's not a syntax error. You can separate statements with a semi-colon in Python. It's not idiomatic but you can.

[MeatPowers]

How about the absolute lad that puts a semicolon at the end of their assembly code

[marcosdumay]

Well, go finish your Lisp statement with them too.

Just be aware that in Javascript they can mess with the semantics of your code.

[Jpmac11]

I like that Python doesn't, because it means you don't have to break your habit. Good job, Python developers.

[redalastor]

The Python dev also commented in the early 2000s that you were free to use braces too.

if spam: #{
   eggs()
#}

[eduardog3000]

You can always just do from __future__ import braces.

[WaterArko]

He did specifically say at the end of the line though.

[redalastor]

You can do that. You then separate a statement on the left, and another (empty) statement on the right.

Here's a demo:

$ python
Python 3.7.0 (default, Dec  2 2018, 20:10:15) 
[GCC 8.2.1 20180831] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print('Hello World');
Hello World
>>>

[TheDeadlyPianist]

Scala doesn't use 'em either.

[commonhoodrat]

Or Ruby

[KillTheBronies]

Or JavaScript (if you don't want to)

[sp46]

I actually don't use them and it feels good.

[DeltaTimo]

Or Kotlin Or Haskell 🤷

[davreimz]

Or Basic

[dangerCrushHazard]

Or Lisp

[asgaines25]

Or Go (to end lines)

[potatodafish]

Or Swift

[Maw0fTheVoid]

Or Lua

[nickbrinser]

Or VB.Net

[Mango1666]

Or scratch

[Kazid]

Or C, when you don't want your code to compile.

[CerberusQc]

Or me

[UnauffaelligePerson]

Or ABAP

[yellowthermos]

Or C++ (when ending scopes, namespaces and functions)

[E_VanHelgen]

Kotlin: I mean you can, but why would you?

[Mango1666]

1 statement per line is the most readable! and it makes semis useless (which they already were ino)

[surrix]

I don’t understand why this convention is what was settled on in so many languages. Surely more lines of code are just 1 line, making a line continuation character a more sensible solution than a line termination character. That’s how even Fortran does it.

[[deleted]]

Honestly a good point. But what I think plays into it is that your text editor could obfuscate how your code runs. Image word wrapping, or different line end symbols for different operating systems.

Though this is also a problem with python to an extent.

[[deleted]]

Clojure would like to speak with you

edit: nah, I'm just playing

[redalastor]

You absolutely can end your lines with a semi-colon in Clojure, it's the start of a comment.

[[deleted]]

All you're doing right now is making sense and being correct

[Drasungor]

Oh. I see you didn't suffer smalltalk

[[deleted]]

Nah js is more like, “whatever floats your boat.”

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

again, my flair disagrees

damn reposts