Proposal: Modify automatic semicolon insertion in strict mode

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

Yuh-Ruey Chen wrote:
> Eric Suen wrote:
>> Your proposal make nosense to me, first, I not sure what is your
>> strict mode means, because in strict mode there is no automatic
>> semicolon insertion.

No, semicolon insertion occurs also in strict mode. Perhaps it shouldn't.

>> in must examples you give there is no automatic semicolon insertion,
>> your proposal make thing even worse, these are just different coding
>> style, for examples, for long expression, it could be: [...]
>> if this will cause syntax error, I think no one will use JavaScript...
> 
> Yes, it will make currently valid coding styles invalid, but that's for
> the sake of a clean grammar. I modeled my rules off what Ruby allows,
> and I haven't really heard Ruby authors complaining about those rules.
> If what you said was true, then Ruby would not be growing in popularity,
> even if it has a different language genealogy.

That's not a valid argument: Ruby had these rules from the start.

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David-Sarah Hopwood