Bye Bye --- hello ;

[machaval]

One thing that has been going over my mind is to remove --- or at least make it optional. Every time I have try it I was not able to do it because of grammar ambiguity. But one option that we never explore is to add ; at the end of the sentences. Then --- can be omitted.

To be honest I don't have any problem with --- but new people find this quite weird. What do we think?

[mikeacjones]

@machaval I agree - the --- isn't an issue. It is a bit weird at first glance because I don't know any other language with something like it, but it isn't a difficult concept to grasp. I don't see it as a problem, personally.

[jerneyio]

I didn't like it at first, but it's grown on me. I currently like that it makes it more obvious whether the file I'm dealing with is a module or an executable script

[menduz]

what if you replace it with a top level return instead?

%dw 2.0

fun myThing() = 1

return {a: myThing()}

How would the ; look like in an example?