The punctuation rules are very similar to English: comma means you’re not through with your thought yet, semi-colon means you’re introducing a new clause, period means you’re done with the entire thought.

Agree, at least when looking at code statically. It's a bit of an inconvenience when editing though. For example, re-ordering lines in a function / adding a new line to the end. That leaves a full stop at the end of an intermediate line and/or a semi-colon at the end. Compiling/running that without fixing (assuming you didn't spot it) can lead to cryptic compiler errors.

I find this hits me a surprisingly large number of times. Maybe it's just the way I write code. But it is an annoyance (for me anyway).

To be fair, any decent editor/IDE will highlight the error. None that I'm aware of has an auto-correct though.

It's a minor annoyance in the great scheme of things. Erlang remains one of my favourite languages. Writing REST services as OTP applications on top of Cowboy* is a very rewarding experience and generates rock-solid, highly scalable, production-quality binaries.

*Webmachine was even better though sadly now not actively maintained.