Proposal: Modify automatic semicolon insertion in strict mode

[Brendan Eich]

On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:48 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:

> Why? That would only happen if you added "use strict;" to a program  
> fragment
> without testing that the resulting program still parses correctly,

Parses and executes over all paths correctly, you must mean.


> which is
> an obviously silly thing to do. If it fails to parse, *and* no  
> programmer
> who can fix it is available, then don't add the "use strict;".

Why impose unnecessary work on someone trying to use strict?


> Alternatively, put the source through a filter that adds the  
> semicolons
> automatically, once and for all. What am I missing here?

What filter? Procured from where? At what cost in time and trouble?

What problem are you solving?

/be