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Is the semicolon in "tl;dr" strictly necessary?

• johnnymonster 14y ago
  yes...
• cletus 14y ago
  Funny how they put the semi-colon there but not in the Javascript.
• ricardobeat 14y ago
  Yes. "Too long didn't read" is not grammatically correct.
  • Johngibb 14y ago
    (For those who don't know there was a standoff between the bootstrap guys and the maker of a popular js minifier tool [Douglas Crockford I think?] over the pragmatism of ending lines in js with semicolons. Bootstrap claims that semi-colons are optional and verbose, while the minifier folks espouse semi-colons as a best practice, and have chosen to consider it "not a bug" that their minifier breaks working code with no semi colons in some cases.)
    • FixThisPOSSite 14y ago
      I had to create a special E-mail filter to send that endless stream of bullshit to the trash from the mailing list.
    • ricardobeat 14y ago
      tl;dr I'm in the optional semi-colons camp, and it is a bug in the minifier :)
• Johngibb 14y ago
  Why not just put them on separate lines? Let the optimizer figure out when to add them. :)
• landr0id 14y ago
  Yes. It's to avoid a comma splice and a sentence fragment. "Too long; don't read," versus "Too long, don't read," versus "Too long. don't read."
• markdotto 14y ago
  Come on, meow, I thought we were past this :).