Semicolon?

[Witold Baryluk]

On Tuesday, 11 May 2021 at 16:31:34 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 May 2021 at 15:41:02 UTC, Witold Baryluk wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 21:51:07 UTC, Arun wrote:
>>> Just curious. Does the compiler need semicolon anymore? Are 
>>> there corner cases that don't work without semicolon?
>>
>> Please never even considering semicolons to be optional in D. 
>> I once hit a optional semicolon issue in JavaScript, that took 
>> two weeks to debug. I hate that feature since then (~2005).
>>
>> If you don't want to use semicolons, just use Python-like 
>> syntax, and then run it thour some converter for example.
>
> function foo()
> {
>     return
>     {
>         foo: "bar"
>     }
> }
>
> console.log(foo())
>
> What does this log? "undefined", obviously, what did you expect?
>
> I learned this the hard way too.

Yeah.

How about this:

```javascript
function bar(x) { return x; }
function baz(x) { return x; }

function foo(aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) {
   return bar(aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
          + baz(aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa);
}
console.log(foo(21))
```

Learned very hard way.