On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 22:52, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/18/11, Claus Reinke claus.rei...@talk21.com wrote:
The only places where semicolons are ever used in the Node.js package
manager are in the 'for' loops headers and at the *beginning* of the lines
that would be
On Apr 18, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
[aside: it would be nice to know who the committee members
are, and what the process is for starting an official proposal]
Who are the committee members?
Ecma TC39 members, a bunch of us self-identify here.
Ecma is a standards body, you
On Apr 19, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Isaac Schlueter wrote:
This style is more easily
scanned. The important tokens are along the left edge, which forms a
straight line with logical and orderly breaks, and those tokens are
not overused, so their presence or absence is very noticeable. The
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
So ASI does *not* change program behavior from non-error behavior A to
non-error behavior B. It instead suppresses early SyntaxError with
successful evaluation, in a deterministic way.
Is that true even in the return
On Apr 19, 2011, at 9:36 AM, John Tamplin wrote:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
So ASI does *not* change program behavior from non-error behavior A to
non-error behavior B. It instead suppresses early SyntaxError with successful
evaluation, in a
On 4/19/11, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
On Apr 19, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Isaac Schlueter wrote:
This style is more easily
scanned. The important tokens are along the left edge, which forms a
straight line with logical and orderly breaks, and those tokens are
not overused, so their
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:02, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/19/11, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
I don't mean to annoy by repeating the same things, but here goes: Is
`()` Grouping Operator or Arguments? Is `[]` ArrayLiteral or Property
Accessor? Or do these cases
On 4/19/11, Isaac Schlueter i...@izs.me wrote:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:02, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/19/11, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
I don't mean to annoy by repeating the same things, but here goes: Is
`()` Grouping Operator or Arguments? Is `[]`
On Apr 19, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Garrett Smith wrote:
I don't mean to annoy by repeating the same things, but here goes: Is
`()` Grouping Operator or Arguments? Is `[]` ArrayLiteral or Property
Accessor? Or do these cases depend on the preceding token?
It depends on the context, but ASI does not
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
Yes. We've discussed this. It's not a change in semantics due to the
error-correction aspect of ASI. There is no ASI on this concatenated input!
Yes, but given that ASI encourages developers to omit semicolons except
On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
On 4/19/11, Isaac Schlueter i...@izs.me wrote:
ASI didn't change the program behavior. ASI didn't happen in that example.
Isaac is correct.
Newline elision changed the program behavior.
Or newlines being insignificant whitespace, let's
On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:27 PM, John Tamplin wrote:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
Yes. We've discussed this. It's not a change in semantics due to the
error-correction aspect of ASI. There is no ASI on this concatenated input!
Yes, but given that ASI
On 4/19/11, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
On 4/19/11, Isaac Schlueter i...@izs.me wrote:
ASI didn't change the program behavior. ASI didn't happen in that
example.
Isaac is correct.
Newline elision changed the program behavior.
On 4/19/11, Garrett Smith dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/19/11, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
On 4/19/11, Isaac Schlueter i...@izs.me wrote:
ASI didn't change the program behavior. ASI didn't happen in that
example.
Isaac is
On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
On 4/19/11, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
On 4/19/11, Isaac Schlueter i...@izs.me wrote:
Newline elision changed the program behavior.
Or newlines being insignificant whitespace,
On 4/19/11, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
[...]
But good point. Indeed, feel free to file a bug at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org asking for such a warning. I'll support it.
I'll do it.
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Garrett
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On 4/19/11, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.com wrote:
[...]
You are asking for an warning when a file ends without a semicolon required
by the grammar, and ASI kicks in. Fair point, good idea. It's not going to
do enough by itself, since warnings are easy to miss, and often annoy the
wrong party
an external compiler (or IDE).
From: Mike Ratcliffe
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:37 PM
To: es-discuss@mozilla.org
Subject: Re: Automatic Semicolon Insertion: value vs cost;
predictabilityandcontrol; alternatives
Jorge, I would opt in for warnings e.g. if I planned on minifying my web app
On 4/18/11, Claus Reinke claus.rei...@talk21.com wrote:
The only places where semicolons are ever used in the Node.js package
manager are in the 'for' loops headers and at the *beginning* of the lines
that would be interpreted incorrectly because of the lack of the semicolon
at the end of the
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