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> If you are a very pertinent and careful type of person, and you don't have any rabid illiterates on your team, going without semicolons makes perfect sense.

Why does it make perfect sense? There's nothing wrong with including them, and I find it reduces the amount of thinking you need to do. JavaScript has C-like syntax; it should end its lines with semicolons and it's a mistake that it doesn't always require them.



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