> A tight summary by someone who understands all this would be appreciated by many readers, not just myself. A tight summary of all of it would be as long as t

> A tight summary by someone who understands all this would be appreciated by many readers, not just myself. A tight summary of all of it would be as long as the article. However, the point about semicolons in Rust is: 1. ; is a separator, not a terminator. 2. a;b separates a and b. 3. a; is a special case which means a;nil(or whatever is the equivalent in Rust) 4. The last expression in a function will be the return value of the function. 5. If the last line in a function is "a", it returns a. If it's "a;", it returns nil(from 3)