Re: [Dynapi-Help] Why are there no semicolons?!?!

[Daniel H. <dhe...@ya...>]

Hi Dan.

I would prefer semi column.
I am used perform some processing on js files, to obfuscate and compress :
put all the file on a single line (then ; are better), replace symbols by
random names (function, members, variables, ...), and use gz compression.
Thanks

Daniel.


----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Steinman <dy...@fu...>
To: <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] Why are there no semicolons?!?!


> In JavaScript its debatable whether you should or should not put a
semi-colon.  The javascript engine will accept code with or without it, and
by not putting semi-colons you're saving yourself a byte per line.  I've
never been one to do whitespace compression cause I just feel it's more
trouble than it's worth.  Jar and gzip compression is a lot more reliable
and compresses more.
>
> Lately I've been putting semi's in my js code just by habit.  It would be
fine with me if we want to standardize either way.
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:19:04PM -0800, Raymond Smith wrote:
> > I have to concur.  As eloquent as the dynapi, is I am also a bit stifled
by the lack of ';'.  In addition to complicating debugging it also hampers
using any type of code compression (which unfortunately the size of dynapi2
warrants).
> >
> > DS
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Doug Melvin
> >   To: dyn...@li...
> >   Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 11:43 AM
> >   Subject: [Dynapi-Help] Why are there no semicolons?!?!
> >
> >
> >   Why is there not a single simicolon in any of these files?
> >   Does javascript not expect a line delimiter?
> >   Would not the code be easier to debug if we knew for a fact that the
'error on line 116' was really on line 116?
> >
> >   Thank you,
> >   Doug Melvin
> >   Integrated System Solutions: Design, Development, Implementation and
Support
> >   Creative-Workshop.com
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