top | item 3844394 (no title) 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. discuss order hn newest 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. load replies (1)
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. load replies (1)
_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. load replies (1)
BrendanEich|14 years ago
"ASI is (formally speaking) a syntactic error correction procedure."
_delirium|14 years ago