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by svnpenn 1260 days ago
The code smell I see is the omitted semicolons. The pitfalls of doing this are well documented. Just don't do it.
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The commonly cited pitfalls are either strawmen or exceedingly rare. ASI is predictable and reliable. Not once in 5 years of semicolon-less development did it come to bite me or anybody else in a notable manner.

By all means use them in your work, but don’t treat it as ultimate truth. It is not.