iOS Swift and semi-colons - are you using them

[theSeb]

I am curious what others are doing. I find old habits are hard to shake after a couple of decades of writing code and I keep adding the semi-colon after statements, even though I don't need to.

I feel that a semi-colon is the "completion" of yet another great line of code and it seems odd to me to not have one. I also think it makes code more readable because I don't expect semi-colons on conditional statements, loops and so forth.

What are others doing? Have you managed to lose the semi-colon like it's old baggage, or are you holding on?

 

[Sean7512]

I've been using Groovy a lot since 2010 and so I have gotten used to not having any semi-colons.

 

[PhoneyDeveloper]

When you go to the continent do you use Euros or pounds sterling?

Semicolons are so twentieth century.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

I haven't heard any arguments for using them (unlike with JavaScript) so no, I don't use them.

It saddens me that Swift has curly braces. It needs to ditch them, as Python and Boo have.

 

[Ritmo]

After having gone through couple Swift tutorials I felt weird going back to Objective-C. For first few lines I kept forgetting *asterix and semicolons. :/

 

[larswik]

I know you don;t need them but if you work with other languages requiring them and it doesn;t hurt to use them in Swift so I continue to use them. I also still use () for my conditions in IF statements. To me it is more readable to see them still then not;

 

[kyussmondo]

No I don't use them. I spend a lot of time using Ruby as well so I am more used to not using semi-colons.

I forget to use semi-colons in Objective-C all of the time now, including the @ for strings.

 

[AppSwage]

When I started working with Python I though the lack of the ";" and "{" and "[", etc. made the language seem almost like a toy. That didn't last long as I quickly got used to how much more efficient and easier to read the code was. I haven't moved to Swift yet (although I have been studying it) but I won't miss the million and half square brackets when I do that is for sure. I won't miss the semicolon either....