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		perlgeek on Oct 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dart language Which languages? javascript and go are both counter examples. In Go the lexer (sic) determines where a line ends, so if you write `if (a == b) && (c == d)` it will guess a line end after the first closing paren. WTF? Python is a totally different beast, and I wouldn't include it in the discussion, because it also uses whitespace for block grouping.

enneff on Oct 10, 2011 [–]

There's no guesswork involved. The carriage return implies a semicolon. The rule is very simple and obvious in use (to me, the code you posted looks wrong - and it is).

http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Semicolons

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