You bring up a good point. There may be times when technical constraints mean you have to go against the prevailing style -- in your case, interoperability with

You bring up a good point. There may be times when technical constraints mean you have to go against the prevailing style -- in your case, interoperability with existing code. (I know that a lot of this works in the other direction when dealing with "foreign" API's in Python.) However, fat and co. aren't avoiding semicolons because there are technical constraints that require them to avoid them. They just seem to not like semicolons.