Semicolons at the end of a statement are as natural as a full stop "." at the end of a sentence, regardless of whether the sentence is the last in a paragraph.
I respectfully disagree, but your comment can probably explain fierce rejection of this proposal in this forum. IMHO this is a wrong analogy as the level of precision requred is different. If you analyse books in print you will find paragraphs in which full stop is missing at the end. Most people do not experience difficulties learning to put a full stop at the end of the sentence most of the time. Unfortunately this does work this way in programming languages with semicolon at the end of statement. Because what is needed is not "most of the time" but "all the time"

My view, supported by some circumstantial evidence and my own practice, is that this is a persistent error that arise independently of the level of qualification for most or all people, and semicolon at the end of the statement contradicts some psychological mechanism programmers have.

In reply to Re^4: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff by likbez
in thread What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff by likbez

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