A good coding guideline should emphasize the importance of "consistency", so if you tell me that.. "..my advice is to insert them (semicolons) immediately befo

A good coding guideline should emphasize the importance of "consistency", so if you tell me that.. "..my advice is to insert them (semicolons) immediately before the opening parenthesis or square bracket in any statement that begins with one of those tokens, or any which begins with one of the arithmetic operator tokens /, +, or - if you should happen to write such a statement..." (http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2010/05/semicolons/ http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2010/05/semicolons/) Then I would say it is really not a good idea.