What does ; do?

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That’s not entirely true, there are a few niche situations where it’s necessary to clarify ambiguity. It’s used clarify that two expressions are completely separate. I gave an example in this post:

Are there differences between ; and ,

You can actually avoid using semi-colons there, and it’s still allowed. You could delete all new-line characters from a script and it would likely still function. There are situations where the context is unclear, so a semi-colon is actually necessary. Take this (not particularly useful) example: local realPrint = print local function print(...) realPrint(...) return print end print"hi""there" (function(x, y) realPrint(x + y) end)(1, 2) --[[ output: hi there function 0x123456 1 2 ]] Wh…