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On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 03:37:49 -0700 (PDT), Julio Di Egidio
<julio@diegidio.name> wrote:

>On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 11:39:16 AM UTC+2, John G Harris wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 00:14:10 -0700 (PDT), Julio Di Egidio
>> <julio@diegidio.name> wrote:
>> >On Thursday, 1 June 2017 02:46:08 UTC+2, Ben Bacarisse  wrote:
>> >
>> >> I am reasonably sure that ECMAScript syntax is not ambiguous (at least
>> >> on this matter).
>> >
>> >You just don't know shit, certainly on this matter.
>> 
>> The syntax specification is unambiguous
>
>It isn't: the most obvious example being the optionality of the semi-colon
>to end statements, which makes some constructs indeed ambiguous.  But this
>is well known among the practitioners, hence best practices like "always
>use the semi-colon", "never put a newline after a 'return'", and similar,
>which indeed work around the (few) inconsistencies in the language.
>
>> if you include the parts of
>> the specification that are outside the formal BNF notation.
>
>Eh?

It seems I have to say it again :

Some ignorant people think that if it isn't in BNF then it isn't a
syntax rule. They are wrong.

That's why the behaviour of newline after 'return' isn't an ambiguity.
The rule for this case is clearly stated in the specification. 

Etc. Etc.

  John

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Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-30 14:34 +0100
  Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-30 15:02 +0100
  Re: x === x Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-30 16:22 +0200
    Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-31 01:02 +0100
      Re: x === x Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-31 12:39 +0200
        Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-31 21:52 +0100
          Re: x === x Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-31 23:39 +0200
            Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-01 01:46 +0100
              Re: x === x Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-01 00:14 -0700
                Re: x === x John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-01 10:39 +0100
                Re: x === x Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-01 03:37 -0700
                Re: x === x John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-01 18:54 +0100
                Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-01 21:54 +0100
                Re: x === x John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-02 11:06 +0100
                Re: x === x John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-02 11:08 +0100
                Re: x === x John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-02 10:56 +0100
                Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-04 12:50 +0100
                Re: x === x John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-04 14:30 +0100
                Re: x === x Dr J R Stockton <J.R.Stockton@physics.org> - 2017-06-04 09:03 -0700
                Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-01 14:45 +0100
                Re: x === x Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-01 07:00 -0700
        Re: x === x Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-01 00:00 -0700

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