Michael Daumling wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The following code produces a "first is not a function" error:
>
> Array.prototype.first = function()
> { return this.length == 0 ? null : this[0]; }
> // no semicolon here
> (function() { if ([1,2].first() == 1) alert ("OK"); }())
>
> If the two statements are separated via a semicolon, there is no error.
>
> The problem is that the second statement is treated as a function argument to
> the function-expression.
This is not a bug.
A semicolon clearly can't be inserted here because it would change the
meaning of a valid program -- as opposed to making an invalid program
valid as in other cases of semicolon insertion. (Nor should we even
be considering *any* extensions to semicolon insertion, which is and
always was simply a bad idea.)
The program also can't be made invalid because that would be a backward-
incompatible change, and because there is no reason to make it invalid.
--
David-Sarah Hopwood
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