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spohlenz | 14 years ago

I believe he refers to error correction as in it corrects errors in the code -- i.e. the code itself should have semicolons and is fixed through ASI.

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BrendanEich|14 years ago

Right. To avoid confusion, I updated the post so the sentence reads

"ASI is (formally speaking) a syntactic error correction procedure."

_delirium|14 years ago

Given that these are all formal languages, though, isn't that equivalent to saying that ASI is, formally speaking, part of the language's syntax? It's all just parsers! Apart from the social conventions around them, of course.