Rather than putting a semi-colon after every function declaration, I would suggest the Lua convention -- put the semi-colon at the beginning of the line that co

Rather than putting a semi-colon after every function declaration, I would suggest the Lua convention -- put the semi-colon at the beginning of the line that could cause issues. An empty statement is valid is JavaScript, so this should work in all cases I can think of: ;(function(){ var foo = 1; console.log(foo); })() In Lua, whitespace is very nearly all the same. For example: a = 1 b = 2 c = 3 is valid Lua code. However, lines that start with parens have the same ambiguity: a = something (expression)(arguments) --Could be: a = something(expression)(arguments); --Also could be: a = something; (expression)(arguments); The parser will complain about the ambiguity. If the intention is to have 1 statement, they should probably be on the same line, otherwise the convention is to put the semi-colon at the beginning of the second line: a = something ;(expression)(arguments)