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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by gfodor on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:12AM (#3842860)
I wasn't literally asking why is this happening. I was pointing out that it's sad that we live in a world where someone like Crockford is spending brain cycles talking about semicolons, regardless of the reason.
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by gurkendoktor on Sunday April 15, 2012 @05:22AM (#3843229)
In the big picture, I agree that everything about the GitHub thread, meta or not, is terrible.

But any author of a language minification library will have to deal with corner cases. I see no easy way out. Would it be better for Crockford not to have started writing JSMin?

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