Ironically, the semicolon would go perfect at the end of the first line.

Semicolons were the staple "eyes" in many emoticons back in the day.

;) ;P ;_;

It is a semicolon; we barely use it.

I use them in at least one out every of ten comments; I feel like most people don't know how to use them, however.

Incorrect, that's a Greek question mark

If one ignores the semicolon, it is at their own peril; they're too useful, even when used slightly incorrectly

My senior highschool English teacher (a somewhat precocious PHD student), assigned us basically the opposite of code golf; make the longest grammatically correct sentence you can (with some rules that basically amounted to 'do not be boring/repetitive'). The use of semicolons was encouraged.

A lot of at least entry-level comp sci is taught in Python these days

English Teacher: It is semicolon we hardly use it.

So... It's perfectly cromulent to everyone here that an English teacher isn't using proper punctuation and capitalization?

Also self harm survivors apparently tattoo themselves with it. I like to think it's a reminder for them that life goes on.

I use semi-colons in English all the time; they're fun.

Python and Lua would like to have a word with you

I use it all the time; especially when it's completely; uncalled for.

So many of the languages that don't use semicolons to separate statements use them to start line comments. It's like some sort of flex.

ITT; people artificially constructing wildly unnatural sentences to try an force the semicolon to be useful and still using it wrong

I mean, have you seen ML with Python. It doesn't have semicolons.

It's the sniff between cocaine rants

those days are largely over for a few major langauges

I wore out that key on my computer. Betweeen IRC and Java, it didn’t last long.

We mean, you can use it often i enough if you use it correctly; if only purely by example.

That grammar begs to be read in a Russian accent

I use semi-colons a lot. People are so intimidated by them and they refuse to admit how simple they are; it's literally the combination of a comma and a colon, that's it. Use it for when both are needed.

As a literary nerd, I use it a lot in my writing.

Lisp devs don't understand this

I don't always use a semicolon, but when I do, it's because I mistyped on my keyboard

Tab gang

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"If you can replace a semicolon or hyphen with a comma/period, you probably should". Writing advice I received at age ~10 and it never stopped being relevant in literature contexts

it’s good someone has invented use for that key.

It's kinda true. When coding by myself, I hardly ever manually type the semicolon myself, I just rely on the auto format to insert it for me.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M94ii6MVilw

technically its called a winkie eye

TFW JavaScript developers

It is a Semicolon