On a team of a sufficient size, dropping semicolons hurts. Someone will be running a static analysis "lint" program in their editor, and it will always flag th

On a team of a sufficient size, dropping semicolons hurts. Someone will be running a static analysis "lint" program in their editor, and it will always flag those missing semicolons. That certainly adds additional cognitive friction to those users, who constantly see the reminder to add the missing semicolon. I guess I've never understood the argument for omitting them. It seems like an unnecessary trick. Coding guidelines should enforce the simplest possible patterns and techniques.