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Re:Actual drawbacks to omitting semi-colons? by suninwinter on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:02AM (#1762802)
A newline takes up just as many bytes as a semicolon.
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Re:Actual drawbacks to omitting semi-colons? by masklinn on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:41AM (#1762864)
But if you have a newline you generally have an indent. Furthermore, there are places in JS where semicolons are absent and newlines are not (after braces).
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Re:Actual drawbacks to omitting semi-colons? by pjscott on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @03:44AM (#1763103)
It's moot, anyway. Format your code for readability, and let a minifier handle making it smaller. Then let gzip finish the job.
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Re:Actual drawbacks to omitting semi-colons? by pjscott on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:39AM (#1762860)
Unless you're using CR+LF as your newline delimiter.
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