I think I see what you're saying, but the context here was asking for cases where omitting semicolons causes non-obvious bugs. I mean: if(x) return

I think I see what you're saying, but the context here was asking for cases where omitting semicolons causes non-obvious bugs. I mean: if(x) return "foo" clearly there's a bug there, but adding in semicolons wouldn't change the code's behavior. So it doesn't affect the "is it bad to omit semicolons?" debate either way.