anti-semicolon

Being anti-semicolon in JavaScript is kind of like being anti-parentheses in Lisp.

I suspect this anti-semicolon fervor may come from a desire to use Ruby's conventions with JavaScript.

Well, we do know that the guy at Twitter that works on their bootstrap is anti-semicolon, so I would say its likely both.

I never understood the whole anti-semicolon thing anyway.

The "other side", as I put it, isn't necessarily anti-semicolon.

Here I feel that there's a lot of room for languages to include assertions that serve "no value", like semicolon line endings -- one frustration often expressed by the anti-semicolon people is "the compiler can tell me when a semicolon is missing, let's just have the compiler put them in".

The "other side", as I put it, isn't necessarily anti-semicolon.

Here I feel that there's a lot of room for languages to include assertions that serve "no value", like semicolon line endings -- one frustration often expressed by the anti-semicolon people is "the compiler can tell me when a semicolon is missing, let's just have the compiler put them in".