Shopping List:
milk butter eggs flour baking soda
This only "works" as long as the statements are reasonably simple. In
general a single space is not enough to visually separate list items (or
statements), especially if the items/statements contain spaces
themselves. Your shopping list example nicely proves that. Mandatory
semicolons are such a hated feature because one typically writes only
one statement per line anyway and ;\n is overkill.
So for me the question is not if commas in tables can be made optional
(with or without removing function calls without parentheses) but if we
should even try.
