Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement

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John G Harris wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> For crying out loud…
>>
>>| 2 Conformance
>>|
>>| […]
>>| A conforming implementation of ECMAScript is permitted to support
>>| program
>>| and regular expression syntax not described in this specification.  […]
>>
>> This, if nothing else, is sufficient to make it standards-compliant.
> 
> For crying out loud, it's still a syntax error!

No, it would be "program […] syntax not described in this specification".

> Unless, of course, you have made it clear you are talking about the
> syntax spec for the browser, if, of course, the browser maker has
> published one that shows this feature, which it hasn't.
> 
> If you'd said it's a permitted browser deviation we would have agreed,
> and then pointed out that it's a bloody stupid deviation.

You have no clue what you are talking about.  Troll elsewhere.


PointedEars
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Sometimes, what you learn is wrong. If those wrong ideas are close to the 
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Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-29 13:55 -0500
  Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-29 22:20 +0200
    Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-29 20:02 -0500
    Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2012-08-29 18:27 -0700
      Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-30 12:37 +0200
    Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-08-30 14:24 +0100
      Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-30 15:59 +0200
        Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-08-30 16:26 +0100
          Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-30 17:47 +0200
            Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-09-01 11:40 +0100
              Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Dr J R Stockton <reply1235@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-09-02 19:54 +0100
          Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-30 11:17 -0500
      Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-08-30 10:25 -0700
        Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Dr J R Stockton <reply1235@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-08-31 23:20 +0100
          Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-08-31 16:03 -0700
  Re: Semicolons and the do..while statement Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-29 22:30 +0200

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