You might want to check out this great article on semicolon insertion: http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/javascript_semicolons http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/

You might want to check out this great article on semicolon insertion: http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/javascript_semicolons http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/javascript_semicolons Basically, you can almost always remove the semicolons without trouble and more often then not problems occur from semicolons not being inserted then from them being inserted in unexpected positions. The "returning an object literal" case is the only common case where a semicolon is mischeviously inserted.