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  • I know this sounds cliché, but "why did I have to scroll so far to find the best answer?" I am always dumbstruck when I see return\n as an argument FOR semicolons. And in my experience, most of the times I see a line starting with a brace, it's because someone's trying to be fancy rather than readable — with the exception of self-executing anonymous functions. Commented Apr 22, 2021 at 21:55
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    Haha if I wrote that again today, then less smugly but with the same reasoning: Hiding en existing language rule is worse than making it apparent. And I completely agree about the “trying to be fancy”. Commented Apr 23, 2021 at 9:49
  • Glad to hear from you! I happen to code alone, so no semicolons for me — and no fanciness either. Commented Apr 24, 2021 at 3:33
  • @flyingsheep: How about if a line start with a regular expression? Or a template string? Commented May 25, 2021 at 11:14