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Punctuation, or lack of it, can change the meaning in programming languages too. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/codebyte-why-are-explicit-semicolons-important
by rcfox 7y ago
Punctuation, or lack of it, can change the meaning in programming languages too.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/codebyte-why-are-explicit-semicolons-important-in-javascript-49550bea0b82 https://medium.freecodecamp.org/codebyte-why-are-explicit-se...
- anoncake 7y agoYeah, but no one would remove punctuation from a program because they think it looks nicer. > Javascript developers Oh, of course.
- andrewprock 7y agoDon't forget gofmt.
- JoBrad 7y agoI remove semicolons from JS b/c I feel like they are a bit of a hack. Except where it's required by the language (for loops, which are becoming less used quite rapidly), your code generally shouldn't be so complex as to require semicolons for readability. Having said that, I've been introducing a lot more colons, since I use TypeScript.
- anoncake 7y agoI was referring to punctuation that is, in some way, actually necessary. No one ends their lines with semicolons in python although it's valid. The rules when the interpreter will "insert" them are obvious. Not so in Javascript.