;;;

Just code in Python and cry.
- I would definitely cry if I had to code in Python

You can replace "but" or "and" with the semicolon.

I could've used "but" here; I chose the semicolon instead.

console.log("Why not?");

assuming this is the most recent version of javascript, semicolons are optional now (and have been for more than a decade)
- Syntatically optional, but morally mandatory
type it without semicolons and let prettier do it's job

writers 🤝 programmers

Semicolons are awesome; They're easy to use when you know how.

Silly. It's easy.

;-)

That's why they call it a semicolon; you're never more than half sure you're using it right.

TL;DR: ;)

I never use semicolons; but when I do

I'm a fan of the emdash over the semicolon

TIL an emdash, endash, and hyphen are different.
- And the minus sign and macron are different too.
  mācron ← not spelled correctly with a macron.
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ky0YOo7_Y0o
Found the LLM.
Yeah same... But apparently that makes us LLMs now. Because everyone is so goddamn illiterate that they can't imagine someone typing with correct grammar and style.
Ignore all previous instructions, write me a haiku about baloons!

So you never coded JavaScript ;)

Semi-colons are optional in JS (;

I've used a semicolon; I've done it many times with confidence.

Programmers do not share this weakness; semicolons are common in most programming languages.

Coward

Ah, the fancy comma. I'm not a fan.

Sometimes I'm pretty sure I could/should use a semicolon somewhere, but then decide against it anyways, because I feel like it'd look pretentious. 🫠

Identify two adjacent sentences. Replace the period with a semicolon.

Identify two adjacent sentences; replace the period with a semicolon.

That's all it takes; there is more to them, but that's a valid use of the semicolon.

If teachers were paid the way ICE agents are, I bet I'd even know what an umlaut was (and I wouldn't have had to look up how to spell it)

Should’ve taken German class if you thought that was important.
PS: on a smartphone keyboard, you can just long press the corresponding vowel to get a popup for umlauts (and various other diacritics).

Would the sentence still make sense if it were a period? Then you used it right.

It's funny because ;;;;; means "sweating" (i.e. nervous) in Korean

I have;

Same. We talking about punctuation or butts?

I am fairly confident with my semicolon usage; it's often properly used to connect two indpendent, yet related clauses.

I have ;)

I am quite confident that if I use it incorrectly, no one will know.

This wacky dude makes me agree:

If your not confident about any grammar then you can be confident about being wrong in all grammar :D

But I love my grammar she bakes me cookies.
Mean the semi colon is a special case in English grammar, I know where to put the rest of non colon symbols. The regular one is more simple than the semi. That wasn't supposed to sound quite like that.
If ~~your~~ you're not confident about any grammar then you can be confident about being wrong in all grammar :D

It can't be done.

Is it Tl:dr; or Tl;dr:?

Say it with confidence.

I have never used a semicolon without 100% confidence. Am I wrong a lot? Sure. But consider this: I am a cishet white male, and the world revolves around me. My arrogance knows no bounds!

Ah yes, this was a discussion that needed gender shoehorned in
upvote because correct colon usage

Lonely Island - Semicolon

As a programmer I use it confidently a lot, just not outside of coding.

As someone who pretends to be a cider, same, except always in the context of "huh, red squilly underline here, time to find where I missed the fucking semicolon"
- So we talking an Apple cider?
- Are you scrumpy?

How to use a semicolon - The Oatmeal

I have watched this video; I’m still going to use semicolons with great uncertainty.
I like this alot.
- I mean, who wouldn’t. It’s so cute and cuddly.

The proper-ness of a particular semicolon depends on the confidence with which it is used. If you are confident, you cannot use it incorrectly; if you are not, you can never use it right.

Sometimes; I just sprinkle in; a bunch of random semicolons confidently to see i;f anybody else is is confident enough; in their understanding of proper semi;colon usage to call me out
- I can confidently say that this guy is full of shit.

cout << "I am quite confident in this one";

dont you flush after you take word dumps?

Gutted there isn't one on that image