"use strict" without a semicolon

Is it ok to use "use strict" without a semicolon at the end?
I’ve looked around the web, and everywhere there is an example with "use strict";

[fat]

I’m sorry you think bootstrap’s javascript promotes poor coding practices. That’s definitely not my intention.

I don’t think i’ve said “because i said so” - or at least i hope i haven’t.

And as always, i’m definitely up for discussion around every part of this project, which is why it’s open source to begin with.

My current rationale is that the bootstrap plugins are simple enough, that * unnecessary* semicolons are unwarranted. I have a pretty good understanding of ASI (according to some test @sayrer tried to troll me with a long while back) and I prefer the ascetic of the code this way. The only problems I’ve heard people bring up from the lack of semicolons are:

• it doesn’t pass jslint
• it doesn’t match the spec
• it doesn’t work with my minifier

I’m sympathetic to the latter - which is why we used to have a semicolon at the end of all the files (incase the minifer you were using was truly awful).

However i was under the impression that people didn’t care anymore after we added the custom downloader which offers the minified concatenated version. If this isn’t the case - i’m happy to add the semicolons back to the end of the file.

I’m less concerned with the spec - where because a semicolon is automatically inserted after the line, I believe it is still being satisfied (clearly this is the case as warnings are correctly thrown in chrome). Also, remember, this is only present as something to help us as developers… if it works in chrome and firefox, which is presumably where we are developing, so it works 😃

That all said, I don’t hate semicolons. In fact i use them in several of my other projects (hogan.js for example). It just doesn’t make sense for me here. If you disagree - let me know why? thanks!

[chetzof]

Please add semicolons, javascript already has some bad parts, don’t add even more.