Codalata

Usually, those syntactic rules are obvious; in many languages, function arguments are delimited by (). The rules for newline-separated statements are often vaguer and differ from language to language. Users are often told either to defensively put semicolons in their code or not to worry about it. Both seem like (minor) failures of language design to me. How then do I find an approach for Roto that doesn't have these problems? I decided that my best course of action was to look at what 11 (!) languages are doing and how their approaches stack up. This post is that exploration. I don't really have an answer on what's best, but I hope this is still be an informative overview.