What’s your opinion on prorgamming languages that separate lines with semicolons or those that just use a line break?

  • @wraptile
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    34 years ago

    I feel the same way. Good code is newline formatter anyway so semicolons tend to be completely reundandant. I like how python has optional support for them though as often I end up in python shell and need a one liner like import foo;foo.do_something()

    • @AgreeableLandscapeOP
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      4 years ago

      Except Python is still whitespace sensitive with semicolons, so in an indented block you have to do something like function1(); function2(). In the terminal it works fine though.

      Honestly, I wish they did what Ruby did and just used the end keyword.

      • @wraptile
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        34 years ago

        Personally I hate end keywords - seems like a such an antipattern. I’ve been using jinja html templating language for most web stuff and the end keywords caused so much headache in my career and are really ugly.

    • @Decibel
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      14 years ago

      How do you handle long variable names?
      e.g. If (super…long…name1 && super…long…name2) vs. If (super…Long…Name1 && super…long…Name2)