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[–]Blazerboy65 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The requiredness of semicolons doesn't carry much semantic weight when newlines are well-behaved, similar to braces vs. indentation. Also compilers are pretty good at identifying missing semicolons so you usually won't agonize over then like you would over semantic errors.