On: Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code”

[groovy2shoes]

While the virtues of semicolon insertion are highly debatable, developers are permitted by the ECMAScript standard to write code that relies on it. A tool like JSMin should be aware of semicolon insertion. ricardobeat put it very well elsewhere in this thread: "It is a bug on JSMin. Minifying should never alter code behaviour."

[ars → groovy2shoes]

Actually JSMin is aware of semicolon insertion and handles it correctly.

They just disagree on whether a semicolon gets inserted here.

[groovy2shoes → ars]

Unfortunately for JSMin, browsers attempt to implement at least the ECMAScript specification, not just "the good parts."