Could you consider removing the semicolons at the end of the lines

[gitchc]

Could you consider removing the semicolons at the end of the lines or make them optional?
While adding semicolons can make the code appear more rigorous, for a scripting language, ease of use might be more important. Like Python or JavaScript do not require them. hope you can take this into consideration

[gitchc]

Or consider making it a parameter that can be freely chosen, so that scripts written in other languages can switch over at a relatively low cost

[schungx]

JavaScript's semicolon omission is known to cause very subtle bugs and is generally considered a bad idea.

Python I believe is line-based so that a line break sort of acts as a semicolon?

Rhai is not line-based so it continues to the next line, there must be a deterministic way for the parser to decide whether it is the end of the statement, or the next token is part of the current statement.

A typical scenario:

let a = foo; +b

let a = foo
+b

[gitchc]

What I actually want to express is that omitting semicolons can make scripts more user-friendly, although it might also introduce some minor issues. Like JavaScript and Python, also like Groovy. There seems to be an tacit agreement that diminishes the importance of semicolons. Regarding the issue you mentioned earlier, if parsing is done on a line-based; and if there is a start with ([{, it might be possible to treat the related code as a single line by closing it appropriately, maybe a solution. Just a suggestion

[Crazy-Bunny]

As we know, languages like Python, Shell, etc., typically don't require semicolons at the end of statements, and in JavaScript, semicolons are also optional. RhaiScript as a scripting language, adhere to the same guideline and provide semicolons as an optional feature to developers? This would greatly help in replacing our existing projects with RhaiScript

[schungx]

Well, whitespace-significant languages like Python use whitespace to provide structure so a line break acts as a form of statement delimiter.

C-type languages are not whitespace significant and so they form blocks with braces, instead of indentation like Python. Rhai is a C-style language (so is Java, C#, Rust, Go etc).

These two styles are quite different... Would you be content to have no semicolons but requiring braces to form blocks?

Because the way of defining blocks for both styles are different.

I believe it would be relatively easy to provide a no-semicolon option, but very difficult to avoid braces to delimit blocks. I can, though, change it to begin and end.