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		dave1010uk on April 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brendan Eich: The infernal semicolon Some reasons: `\n can easily get turned into \r\n Whitespace is harder to see when debugging (especially with word wrap) Convention`

gcb on April 15, 2012 [–]

You're not supposed to touch your minified js after you generated it

dave1010uk on April 16, 2012 | [–]

And most people won't. Using semicolons means things are less likely to break when other people use your code.

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