If memory serves, IBM's PL1 used to insert missing punctuation that it (the compiler) felt was missing. This wasn't particularly well thought out and often caus

If memory serves, IBM's PL1 used to insert missing punctuation that it (the compiler) felt was missing. This wasn't particularly well thought out and often caused problems that were very difficult to debug. I used to think of it as 'doing me a favor that I hadn't asked for' and grew to hate both the feature and the language (the language for other reasons). In the years since then I've tried to be consistent in avoiding any such feature. I find it much easier to go ahead and use what ever the language needs. If I use semi-colons, then I don't have to guess there after...