One common observation about bish is that requiring semicolons and curly braces doesn't seem like "modern syntax." The original reason why I added those requirements was to make parsing easier. However, to make bish more attractive for shell scripting, semicolons should be optional.
Statement parsing should search either for a newline character or a semicolon. Thus, if one wants to write two statements on the same line, a semicolon can be used to separate them. Semicolons at the end of a line will be allowed, but serve no purpose.
(Note there is precedent in the swift language for this approach).
One common observation about bish is that requiring semicolons and curly braces doesn't seem like "modern syntax." The original reason why I added those requirements was to make parsing easier. However, to make bish more attractive for shell scripting, semicolons should be optional.
Statement parsing should search either for a newline character or a semicolon. Thus, if one wants to write two statements on the same line, a semicolon can be used to separate them. Semicolons at the end of a line will be allowed, but serve no purpose.
(Note there is precedent in the
swiftlanguage for this approach).