Another use is marking off the keyword arguments or parameters.

On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 3:11:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
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> 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
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I understand that, and that too is not consistent with the use of ; 
>> outside of [ ].
>> 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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