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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by jpeterson on Sunday April 15, 2012 @12:33AM (#3842770)
There's a whole hipster movement going on right now around the idea of omitting semicolons from JavaScript code. I believe CoffeeScript is the culprit.

Personally, I agree with Crockford -- it's dumb.

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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by bratsche on Sunday April 15, 2012 @12:57AM (#3842831)
Kind of funny that you say this, since CoffeeScript inserts semicolons.

The lack of semicolons is the one major thing in the Github style guide that I think is stupid. It seems silly to avoid using semicolons in Javascript because it actually takes a little bit more effort than just using them.

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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by Osiris on Sunday April 15, 2012 @02:31AM (#3843000)
On my team we've decided to use semi-colons in JavaScript for this exact reason: It would actually take more effort to stop using them as our other major language is PHP. More effort for no benefit is pointless.
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by chime on Sunday April 15, 2012 @02:16AM (#3842969)
> I believe CoffeeScript is the culprit.

CoffeeScript removes semicolons from CoffeeScript, not JavaScript.

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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by leetrout on Sunday April 15, 2012 @12:42AM (#3842794)
Meh, the real hipsters are just pushing comma-first.
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by maratd on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:25AM (#3842892)
They're all hipsters.
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