The problem is that there is an actual drawback to making semicolons optional: adding a newline between tokens can change the meaning of the code! This "featu

The problem is that there is an actual drawback to making semicolons optional: adding a newline between tokens can change the meaning of the code! This "feature" is really just a bad idea. I would hope that it gets thrown out in future versions of the standard (is there one?), and use semicolons in the meantime.