semicolons and the policy that was none

[Arjen Hiemstra]

On Wednesday, 10 August 2022 15:57:53 CEST Harald Sitter wrote:
> Aloha,
> 
> Someone recently dug up this page from 2012
> 
> https://community.kde.org/Plasma/QMLStyle#JS_Code_Blocks
> 
> First I'd like to point out that this page isn't a policy page, if it
> was meant to be then it needs to be linked on the policies page and
> supposedly somehow agreed upon, which I don't recall this one being
> (but then I wasn't really following plasma 10 years ago).
> 
> Secondly, can we clarify our stance on semicolons?
> 
> a) we don't care, do whatever you feel like but be consistent with
> your surrounding
> b) use semicolons never [*unless required]
> c) use semicolons always
> d) use semicolons sometimes [*define sometimes]
> 

In effect, I've been writing code as (b) so I'd prefer that. That said, I would 
add something about it only applying to new code, to avoid the pointless 
"remove semicolons" MRs as Aleix mentioned. I'd also be fine with (a), which is 
basically the status quo.

- Arjen

> Please cast votes
> 
> I vote for a) or b) because the point of having a policy on this
> eludes me entirely
> 
> HS