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by atinoda-kestrel 4008 days ago
Yeah, I'm not sold on "fewer characters" as a win. 'cause then we can have the code golf arguments that inevitably get into the nutty realm.

For visual parsing, consistency matters. In an object literal dec I expect:

  name : value
That's easy to parse visually. Not good is when suddenly we get:

  nameandvalue(){
in the space that our brain expects the former.