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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by groovy2shoes on Sunday April 15, 2012 @01:29AM (#3842897)
While the virtues of semicolon insertion are highly debatable, developers are permitted by the ECMAScript standard to write code that relies on it. A tool like JSMin should be aware of semicolon insertion. ricardobeat put it very well elsewhere in this thread: "It is a bug on JSMin. Minifying should never alter code behaviour."
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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by ars on Sunday April 15, 2012 @02:55PM (#3844341)
Actually JSMin is aware of semicolon insertion and handles it correctly.

They just disagree on whether a semicolon gets inserted here.

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Re:Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely st... by groovy2shoes on Sunday April 15, 2012 @03:47PM (#3844503)
Unfortunately for JSMin, browsers attempt to implement at least the ECMAScript specification, not just "the good parts."
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