Are you aware that the semicolon is meaningful in Rust because it indicates returning from a block (as well as separating expressions). mitsuhiko (author of Python's flask, jinja2, etc) wrote about why he loves Rust's semicolons: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/10/18/such-a-little-thing/
Yes. And I really dislike that there is a difference. The semicolon is so small and what the block returns is so important, it's a really weird thing to love.
Since I am being downvoted for expressing a technical criticism, let me clarify:
I like explicitness, readability and clear, unambiguous syntax. Two small dots at the end of a line completely changing the entire block's meaning is, to me, a violation of those principles.
My own immediate reaction upon first reading the Rust tutorial was that significant semicolons were completely brain-dead. However, time went on and I was never able to think of a scenario where the compiler wouldn't immediately detect an errant or missing semicolon. Nowadays I completely adore them (though I still recommend that people use an explicit `return` in any expression of nontrivial length).
