[hombre_fatal]

;[]... is one of two rules you memorize when you omit semis. It's not even that common of a case, though your own example doesn't even make sense.

I don't really understand the drama, just like people who use semis in place you don't need them. In real code, you should be using a linter anyways. At which point semis or no semis becomes purely an aesthetic concern. Like whether you use single or double quotes.

I haven't used semicolons in over 8 years and never had an issue. And with tools like eslint and prettier, you have no excuse to be making such trivial mistakes, like adding superfluous semicolons like function(){};

[DonHopkins]

I have other more important rules I need to memorize with those brain cells, that I don't need to voluntarily choose to give myself more problems that require me to memorize ridiculous rules and obscure special edge cases to look out for all the time, that inexplicably screw me if I happen to slip up and forget to apply them. I stopped playing "step on a crack, break your mother's back" years ago, when I was old enough to actually have somewhere I needed to be.