What are the other uses of ; in Julia? I can only think of suppressing 
output on the REPL and separating expressions on a single line - neither 
seems inconsistent or really related at all to the use within []. 

On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 3:06:22 PM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote:
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> On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 1:47:07 PM UTC-4, Sean Marshallsay wrote:
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>> [1:10;] is simply a consequence of matrix literal syntax (like [1:10; 
>> 11:20]) and gets translated into vcat(1:10). It might be a bit confusing 
>> but there's no point in making it a special case
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> Yes, I understand that, and that too is not consistent with the use of ; 
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> spaces, colon, semicolon, and commas are all treated specially instead of 
> [ ], which can be rather confusing.
> Some of that special behavior is being deprecated, but some remains.
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