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BrendanEich
on April 15, 2012
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Brendan Eich: The infernal semicolon
It's just you ;-). I love && and || being both short-circuiting (as in C) and value-preserving (as in LISPs, Perl, etc.). That's not the issue.
The issue is abusing && or || as the whole of an expression statement, instead of using if.
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The issue is abusing && or || as the whole of an expression statement, instead of using if.