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Are semicolons annoying to type? Probably, I got used to them

The semicolon is the least-annoying non-letter character to type. It's right there on your home row.



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I see no problem with semicolons. I guess it is mostly personal preferences.

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Semicolons. Ew.

Any such move will eventually result in automatic semicolon insertion in some shape or form.

What's wrong with semicolons anyway?


They also use square brackets and curly braces more often than writers. That's not as amusing, for some reason.

It does feel like the semicolon doesn't deserve a position on home row anymore. I would demote it for a different letter or even the question mark. Actually I might try this on my Ergodox.


That's a colon, not a semicolon. I prefer them myself, as I find them easier to read and slightly simpler to process in ad hoc ways with sed etc.

I always swap out the semicolon for the apostrophe because I honestly don’t think that key gets enough play to have its position on the home row.

Its on the home row; I don't think people use enough semicolons.

a semicolon can be considered a 'special' character alright ...

There's also the semicolon.

I never use semicolons and I never have these issues.

Even in the rarest cases I maybe had them like when copy pasting in the wrong place they were so rare that I don't think it's worth the additional noise of semicolons.


Sure, which is what the rules always say, and is fairly straightforward. The hard part is actually using it because it usually looks so out of place to me. It's a chicken and egg problem, where semicolons are hard to comfortably use because they are so rare they look out of place when I try, and I assume part of the reason for their rarity is other people feel the same way.

I'm not sure I can agree; semicolons can come in handy occasionally.

I miss semicolons ;)

What if it's just a semicolon?

Semicolons. I mean I got the hang of them eventually but it took a lot of banging my head against the keyboard. I only mention this because I'd guess that most people won't think of it.

Well, I agree with that and all. But why type (and more importantly, look at) a bunch of semicolons if you don't have to, ya know?

I find it amusing that programmers use semicolons more often then writers.

I don’t use semicolons ;)

I would love to hear an argument FOR "semicolon insertion" for a change. I only ever hear arguments against it. Personally I would prefer to avoid unnecessary line noise if the interpreter can figure it out for me given the context.
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