[tonyarkles]

Things like this[1] are why I dislike semicolon inference. I very much think in language grammars, and languages that do clever things on top of that tend to annoy me. And, yes, I realize significant whitespace is likely implemented as a an edge case outside of the grammar, but it's at least simple.

An interesting thing with Scala is that in the BNF, "semi" is defined as ';' or nl.[2] After doing some initial reading about Scala, I was pretty much wondering why Scala needed semicolons at all. What you call "semicolon inference" seems like it's more like "optional semicolons", in that the language doesn't really need them.

[1]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29743009/in-scala-are-se... [2]https://github.com/jystic/language-scala/blob/master/doc/syn...