Oddities about JavaScript

Re:Oddities about JavaScript by JeremyBanks on Monday May 30, 2011 @10:22AM (#2599451)

This Python

    def a():
        return
        False;

returns None.

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Re:Oddities about JavaScript by qntm on Monday May 30, 2011 @12:57PM (#2599835)

That's because in Python the line break is the statement terminator.

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Re:Oddities about JavaScript by JeremyBanks on Monday May 30, 2011 @01:15PM (#2599893)

Python and JavaScript both accept semicolons or line breaks to terminate statements. JavaScript's syntax problems are a bit more subtle than just that.

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Re:Oddities about JavaScript by riffraff on Monday May 30, 2011 @12:57PM (#2599836)

Same in ruby

    def foo
     return
     true
    end

returns "nil"

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