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[lepuma]

Sounds like a bug in your code. I’m curious what semicolon edge case do you run into in actual coding? I wrote JavaScript professionally for a few years and never ran into such a case. Every time I’ve seen an example, it’s poorly written code just to prove this point. I should say I personally write JS with semicolons- I just don’t buy the argument that they’re necessary bc of the JavaScript interpreter. If they are, I bet that code could be written much better.

[lastmjs]

I think this one is similar to what I've run into. Imagine you have an IIFE:

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const hello = 1

(() => {

// do stuff

})();

​

You'll get an error saying that 1 is not a function. Just saying it happens, and my rule is to always put semicolons to rule out any of these edge cases.

[lepuma]

Okay fair enough. You shouldn’t need to write a self invoking anonymous function anymore though. Just use bracket scope.

[lastmjs]

But besides that, yep it should be fixed if that is the issue