JavaScript Automatic Semicolon Insertion - ASI Statements affected by automatic semicolon insertion
Example
- empty statement
varstatement- expression statement
do-whilestatementcontinuestatementbreakstatementreturnstatementthrowstatement
Examples:
When the end of the input stream of tokens is encountered and the parser is unable to parse the input token stream as a single complete Program, then a semicolon is automatically inserted at the end of the input stream.
a = b
++c
// is transformed to:
a = b;
++c;
x
++
y
// is transformed to:
x;
++y;
Array indexing/literals
console.log("Hello, World")
[1,2,3].join()
// is transformed to:
console.log("Hello, World")[(1, 2, 3)].join();
Return statement:
return
"something";
// is transformed to
return;
"something";
