[Development] Using semicolons in JS (QML)

Shawn Rutledge Shawn.Rutledge at qt.io
Mon Oct 3 10:47:36 CEST 2016


> On 30 Sep 2016, at 23:57, Robin Burchell <robin+qt at viroteck.net> wrote:
> 
> For Qt, while I would like to see one or the other picked and followed
> for consistency's sake, I'm not sure it would be a useful investment of
> your time to try to enforce a particular semicolon-style without tooling
> enforcement, as it seems like yet another Sisyphean task that will - at
> best - burn a lot of your time and energy and end up back in exactly the
> same situation, all for an effort which in practice has little
> real-world gain. I think that is why Shawn replied the way he did.

Yes that was my point, but stated better.

Sorry for over-reacting.

The performance impact is of course hardly worth discussion except as an explanation of where the no-semicolons habit came from (at least for people like me who wrote QML during that time).




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