On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]>wrote:

> So it seems to me that auto-inserted semicolons are only troubling to the
> control freak when they are doing something that they truly should not be
> doing.
>

Hmm. In fact, I'll go out on a limb here. If we did *not* auto-insert the
semicolons, and instead issued an error where a '}' or a ';' *would* have
been inserted, most control freaks would (a) grumble that the compiler
shouldn't enforce indentation, but (b) agree that the indentation being
enforced was sound and was in compliance with their local coding policies.

What this suggests to me is that the problem is less in having the
auto-insertion policy than it is in packaging the error messages
incorrectly. :-)
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