Option to add or at least not remove trailing semi-colons?

[chriselrod]

When running code in the REPL, I prefer not to have it flooded with text. Especially every time a function returns a long vector.

Yet JuliaFormatter strips semicolons, meaning that is exactly what happens.

Note that code inside various blocks will often be run in the REPL whilst debugging.

[domluna]

can you give an example ?

 julia> s = """
 a = 10;

 b = 20;
 """
 "a = 10;\n\nb = 20;\n"

 julia> format_text(s) |> print
 a = 10;

 b = 20;

the semicolons are preserved

[chriselrod]

julia> format_text("""
       begin
           a = rand(100);
           sum(a)
       end
       """) |> println
begin
    a = rand(100)
    sum(a)
end

When debugging, I often run the contents of blocks in my REPL line by line.

[domluna]

ok ic

CSTParser doesn't support semicolons really at all but I think we could do something similar to what we do for inline comments to catch these

[chriselrod]

Could we also get have an option we can set in our .JuliaFormatter.toml to end all lines with a semicolon?

[stev47]

The removal of trailing semicolons can actually break code. Minimal example:

julia> code = raw":($([]...);)"
":(\$([]...);)"

julia> code |> Meta.parse |> eval
quote
end

julia> format_text(code) |> Meta.parse |> eval
ERROR: syntax: "..." expression outside call