Semicolon

If I have a sentence such as:

The sky is the biggest thing in the universe; therefore, your pants are not bigger than the sky.

In school I was taught that semicolons were used between two independent clauses, but I am not sure how the word "therefore" impacts the independentness of the 2nd clause.

I grew up in an English speaking country but the use of a semicolon and colon still baffles me.

For example, which would be right in this context.

E.g:

The requested documents attached are as follows(:/;)

• Document 1
• Document 2
• Document 3

In this case is ; or : appropriate?

Why there is so much tutorials without semicolons? Should new developers use semicolons, coz bugs can appear when they don't understand ASI? I think that code is easier to read when there is semicolons.

For those of us who wanted to separate independent clauses in a fancy way

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I just got it in the mail and Im excited to put it on my car. The semicolon means a lot to because of what I've gone through mentally in my life. I know I probably mentioned why back in your offer post. So thank you :)

the decal

Had a banal but sort of bizarre revelation. Was reading Suttree and found a semicolon in it. One semicolon. Check it out yourself (2010, Picador ed. Pg. 487 lower half):

"... membership among the dead; all souls that ever were..."

McCarthy himself has talked of the "idiocy" of semicolons. I'm being pedantic, I know, but nonetheless it's bizarre. Out of 500+ pages of dense text there is only ONE use of the semicolon, and it appears to be very deliberate, so I think you can rule out it being a typo. Anyone have an idea as to why it's there, why McCarthy would leave it in at a time when he clearly thought semicolons to be pointless?

Hello,

I never really learned how to use a semicolon. After doing some reading online, I've attempted below. Feedback would be great!

Thanks in advance!

In addition to my interest in Economics; my whole life I've been captivated by the Middle East; its cultures, food, religions, and the unending conflicts amid all the cultural/historic riches.

I noticed that the manual doesn't specify a terminator aka semicolon for any command except the form "for name in word" and select.

But I've been browsing some code and I see them used all over, I even tested a bunch with and without the semicolon just on the command line and there were no surprises, everything worked. I've been using them in my code, so was a bit puzzled when I read that section over again for the 500th time

Is this just a compatibility thing that people use them?

Hi guys. I don’t know how to write this without sounding all self promo-ey and horrible. But I’m gonna try.

So basically I’ve started a magazine called Semicolon Magazine where the whole idea is telling stories that wouldn’t normally be told (apparently that’s the exact same idea TD bank has... oops) and writing about things because we find them interesting. The description I gave it was “like a more sophisticated version of fact books for kids” The reason I’m writing this is because printing is mad expensive and I’m quite young so this is sorta a lot of money + a big risk so I just wanted to know if

A) you guys are interested B) you have some ideas of where I could try and sell it lol cuz I don’t wanna lose 450 bucks

Thanks and I know I didn’t give much info so if you have questions I’m more than happy to answer them in true comments.

Also is the flair “local news” wrong? I mean it’s not news in itself but it is a local magazine that shares the news so idk

Thanks

Would it be better to use a period instead of the semicolon to make it two sentences?

Due to the covid-19 pandemic I’ve had to adapt my business to be done through correspondence. It has made me much more conscious of my grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc. I am a native English speaker but my school stopped teaching grammar after grade 7. I was never taught higher level grammar and I feel like my grammar is quite poor because of this.

If you have any recommendations for resources to help improve my grammar and punctuation I would appreciate it!

I know a lot of you won't be old enough to get tattoos, but for those who got a semicolon tat:

Where is it? What does it mean to you? How much did it cost to get it done? And are there any stories of people's reactions to it when they see it

Im thinking of getting one sometime soon, so I'm just tryna gauge what it's like

I found this example code on https://booksites.artima.com/programming_in_scala_4ed/examples/html/ch07.html

def fileLines(file: java.io.File) =

scala.io.Source.fromFile(file).getLines().toArray

def grep(pattern: String) =

for (

file <- filesHere

if file.getName.endsWith(".scala");

line <- fileLines(file)

if line.trim.matches(pattern)

) println(s"$file: ${line.trim}")

Not 100 percent confident if I understand this correctly, but if we use parentheses as our braces for this function here, we have to have a semicolon at the end of every one line statement? Are the if expressions/filters part of the previous line? If I wanted to I could have multiple filters for the first for expression, I would not need semicolon till the last filter for the first for expression because all of them collectively are one line?

Whatever follows a colon is like talking out of your asshole. Conjecture comes after a semicolon

so i have around 2000 txt files with a very long text in each one of them after every word there are numbers between parentheses and i was wondering is there a code that i can put in VBA that will remove the numbers then replace the empty parentheses that resulted with a Semicolon instantly

example

word (1234) word (1234) word (1234)

and this is what i want it to be

Word; Word; Word;

i already spent 6+ hours straight editing with Kutools and still haven't finished half of it

P.S. i never used excel in my life and sorry for my English

Yeah, he got two consecutive sentences!

I was translating the lyrics of a song to English. None of the original lyrics on the internet have any punctuations, so I don't have any source lyrics to look up to, even though it's trivial anyway.

So is my use of semicolon correct in the last sentence of the verse below?

Our true love will go down in history
It's a story of happiness and sympathy
Such that every individual on the earth
Will realize; our love will forever last

Sorry if you find the lyrics cheesy btw, which you probably do haha

(Also, how do I get that green punctuation flair thingy for my post? I don't really understand how reddit works sorry)

Is this a proper use of semicolon in English. "Instead of increasing engagement over time; it dropped."

Let's say one item in my list includes a comma. Do I replace all other commas with semicolons? For example:

I am bringing my dog; my orange, gray, and black cats; my bird; my mouse; and my monkey.

In this example, the internal list is done starting with the bird. Should I continue to use semicolons after the bird or should those be replaced with commas?

I always remove unnecessary semicolon, and always use tab for indentation. This can be done easily in vscode typescript settings such as {"typescript.format.semicolons": "remove"}. How to do the same with deno. Thanks!

They look epic. Here’s three in a row - ;;; - Now here’s a colon which is not epic - : - As you can see the semicolon has much more detail and is not just two dots, but rather a dot and an apostrophe. Let me know why you love semicolons.

I have the following quote from Susan Sontag's essay on Camp in cinema: "A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed". For the emboldened section, what is the difference between the use of "as distinct from" vs "distinct from"? Furthermore, the way she uses a semicolon before a conjunction feels odd to me. Is it correct?

Thanks!

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I have an excel file filled with data than I need to sift through. This is what it looks like:

Is there any possible formula or use of VBA where it can locate and remove the instances of "TRF" + any other characters that come after until the semi-colon? For example:

In the cell containing: (TRF/CITY - S ROADWAY;AC/COMM -SPF;PWS/FTMFR)

Remove the "TRF/CITY - S ROADWAY" but leave the rest so the only thing left in that cell would be "AC/COMM -SPF;PWS/FTMFR"

*After posting, I see that the whole sheet can't be seen. Here's a quick screenshot of it: https://imgur.com/KwuDGLJ

The current semicolon insertion enforces same-line bracket style. This style gets confusing and less readable when functions have long parameter list. For example (this piece of code uses nakama game server):

func (m *Match) MatchLoop(
	ctx context.Context,
	logger runtime.Logger,
	db *sql.DB,
	nk runtime.NakamaModule,
	dispatcher runtime.MatchDispatcher,
	tick int64,
	state interface{},
	messages []runtime.MatchData) interface{} {
	game := state.(*Game)
	if game.Phase == EndTurn {
		game.ProcessEndTurn()
		
		if game.Phase == EndGame {
			game.ProcessEndGame()
		} else {
			game.ResetGame()
			game.Phase = Playing
		}
	}
}

As you can see it's quite hard to distinguish where the method starts.

Compare it to this:

func (m *Match) MatchLoop(
	ctx context.Context,
	logger runtime.Logger,
	db *sql.DB,
	nk runtime.NakamaModule,
	dispatcher runtime.MatchDispatcher,
	tick int64,

Here's the text assigned for my class: https://www.stevenlrichardson.com/CIS120/IntroductionToProgrammingUsingJava8th/c2/s3.html#basics.3.4

But in every other example, enums are written as exemplified:

enum levels { LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH; }

however, my program compiled and ran just fine when I followed the text and defined it as:

enum levels { LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH }

As an additional question that has to do with UML what does this mean " +Scrabble (s:String) " from my understanding this is what I have coded:

public Scrabble(String s) but I'm not sure if it's supposed to be void or return something.

I believe in the book there was a story of people/fairies coming from a stream to the sea/a lake, with descriptions of the vegetation around them.

What was interesting was that just about every sentence contained a semicolon ";". I believe I looked up why this was, but I forgot if I ever found an answer.

A couple of years ago I downloaded an ebook reader on my android device, from F-Droid I think. And with the app there came this book as a file, perhaps to test the app. But since my memory of this is somewhat fuzzy, I may have also downloaded the book through the app, since it offered access to things like the Gutenberg project. However, I doubt this.

Now when I download this app (Cool Reader, I believe) there is another book of fairy tales attached. So it may have been another app, though I doubt that. Unfortunately I downloaded the app, and the book, 2 phones ago, so I don't have access to these files any longer.

Edit: The book was Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens.

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