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		masklinn on Oct 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Actual drawbacks to omitting semi-colons? But if you have a newline you generally have an indent. Furthermore, there are places in JS where semicolons are absent and newlines are not (after braces).

pjscott on Oct 6, 2010 [–]

It's moot, anyway. Format your code for readability, and let a minifier handle making it smaller. Then let gzip finish the job.

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