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I wish they were. It can cause unexpected problems. http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/#semicolon http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/#sem

• jacobolus 16y ago
  That example has nothing to do with whether semicolons are omitted or not; the rule that you need to know is don’t ever put a newline between the “return” keyword and the value to be returned, but whether you add semicolons at the end of what you want to make a statement makes absolutely no difference in this case. In other words, whether you write return foo; or return foo the result is the same: an empty return, completely ignoring the foo bit.
  • drivebyacct2 16y ago
    Right, but if it wasn't "autoinserting" semicolons, the behavior would be different.
    • jacobolus 16y ago
      That doesn’t have any bearing on whether human programmers should add unnecessary semicolons to lines where there is no such ambiguity.