return outside of functions

Given:

// https://github.com/observing/pre-commit/blob/master/install.js#27
if (!exists(git) || !fs.lstatSync(git).isDirectory()) return;

I got a parse error:

SyntaxError: 'return' outside of function (1:54)
> 1 | if (!exists(git) || !fs.lstatSync(git).isDirectory()) return;
    |                                                       ^

This is because return is allowed within node modules but the parser does not like it.

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[jlongster]

It seems like we shouldn’t allow then. We want to encourage only spec-compliant code and this is a very strange node feature.

[escaton]

this is another question, why need to support two parsers that give different output?