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by fenomas 2312 days ago
No idea what GP was trying to say, but the C style intuition is correct. The bug in that code is due to omitted brackets, it has nothing to do with semicolons/ASI.
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z3t4 2312 days ago
My point was that its hard to tell where the semicolon will be inserted. As well as the intention of the programmer. Here is another example:

    if(x)
    return
    "foo"

    return callback
    (1,2,3,4)
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fenomas 2312 days ago
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.
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z3t4 2311 days ago 

    if(y) return
      "bar"
The linter will tell you there should be a semicolon, and you are like, - no it shouldn't.
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