I can't deal with languages with optional semicolons! I like languages without semicolons, but when they're optional, especially if they feel "C-like", I always end up adding semicolons to some lines even when I try to write in a semicolon-less style. I'm writing some #kotlin now and I decided to just use semicolons consistently because the alternative is seemingly to use them inconsistently.
Strangely, this isn't an issue I have in #golang. I do have it in #rust however.
@mort Rust doesn't have optional semicolons. Leaving a semicolon out is only valid as the last element in a block to denote it as the resulting expression for that block, but that's not the same thing as optional semicolons.
@ekuber That's correct, and I would've added a caveat if I wasn't limited to 512 characters, but here we are
For a whole lot of blocks in rust (such as if statements and loops not used as expressions), it doesn't make a difference whether the block technically evaluates to something, so the last semicolon there is in practice optional, so I sometimes forget it
@mort I have the same issue going from #PHP to #Kotlin. Though not having it in Rust is weird. It's a semicolon language aside from returns, no? Or is it the returns that bug you?
@Crell I should've clarified but I ran out of characters :p Semicolons after the last line in a block in Rust aren't optional, they do have semantic meaning, but they are optional in practice a lot of the time. For example, it usually makes no difference whether an if statement technically evaluates to a value or not, so in effect, the last semicolon in the body of an if statement is usually optional.
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