Optional Curly Braces in JavaScript

[Ed Saleh]

How is it a valid identifier? I guess the `_` in my case would be used as a statement, not as a function and the JavaScript compiler can somehow distinguish between the different contexts depending on the surrounding identifiers. To my knowledge `_` is used to make numbers more readable, e.g. `1_000_000` rather than `1000000`, but here we have a context of numbers, not expressions or statements.
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Subject: Re: Optional Curly Braces in JavaScript

The single character

    _

*is already a valid identifier* as Ron said.

And not an obscure one (not that that would matter) but rather *the
global object used by the Underscore library*.

You might as well be using

    $

here and trying to convince people to stop using it as the top level
of their library.

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