Subj : Too permissive semicolon insertion?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Igor Bukanov
Date : Sun Aug 22 2004 02:48 pm


Consider the following:

foo() bar;

In SpiderMonkey shell from CVS tip it correctly generates syntax error:

x.js:2: SyntaxError: missing ; before statement:
x.js:2: foo() bar;
x.js:2: ......^

Now if I change that to:

foo(
) bar;

then the shell no longer complains about syntax errors and just notify 
about runtime error when it executes the compiled code:

x.js:2: ReferenceError: foo is not defined


Is it a bug or some compatibility consideration?

Regards, Igor

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