JavaScript’s Syntactic Quirks

Jason Orendorff looked into the JS spec, in detail …

JavaScript is rather hard to parse. Here is an in-depth accounting of its syntactic quirks, with an eye toward actually implementing a parser from scratch.

One quirk most JS devs have will have certainly heard of is Automatic Semicolon Insertion (ASI).

JavaScript’s Syntactic Quirks →

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.