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If your not confident about any grammar then you can be confident about being wrong in all grammar :D
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.
But I love my grammar she bakes me cookies.
This wacky dude makes me agree:
I've used a semicolon; I've done it many times with confidence.
Coward
Would the sentence still make sense if it were a period? Then you used it right.
So you never coded JavaScript ;)
Semi-colons are optional in JS (;
Silly. It's easy.
;-)
I never use semicolons; but when I do
console.log("Why not?");
type it without semicolons and let prettier do it's job
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
I am a software developer;
I do not understand;
Just code in Python and cry.
I would definitely cry if I had to code in Python
Have you seen JavaScript? It's python but worse (but slightly more standard syntax (that is often optional))
I do enough crying coding in JavaScript.
Semicolons are awesome; They're easy to use when you know how.
Capitalization however
capitalization is not something i care for
I Love Capitalization.
Don't say that on Lemmy, you'll bring the tankies.
As a programmer I use it confidently a lot, just not outside of coding.
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That's why they call it a semicolon; you're never more than half sure you're using it right.
I'm a fan of the emdash over the semicolon
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!
Found the LLM.
TIL an emdash, endash, and hyphen are different.
And the minus sign and macron are different too.
mācron ← not spelled correctly with a macron.
Ah, the fancy comma. I'm not a fan.
I like this alot.
I mean, who wouldn’t. It’s so cute and cuddly.
i think op forgot about proper separation, it should have been a;lot
Thank;s im never sure when to use them.
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writers 🤝 programmers
Same. We talking about punctuation or butts?
TL;DR: ;)
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.
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Programmers do not share this weakness; semicolons are common in most programming languages.
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