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by DaleBiagio
90 days ago
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ALGOL (1960) used semicolons as separators.
C made them terminators. Every language since has had to pick a side, and "optional" always turns out to be the hardest choice. JavaScript's ASI is what happens when a 10 day language has to live with a quick pragmatic decision for 30 years. |
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