[antlr-interest] Checking for expression end in Javascript parser

[Tech]

Absolutely, poor wording on my part. I guess I should have said 
'Javascript statements end at either a semi colon, or the earliest new 
line that makes a valid statement.'

Given this, should

    a=3

count as a complete statement on it's own line? My parser won't treat is 
as such because the expressions are nested, so I hope not!

Mark

shmuel siegel wrote:

> Tech wrote:
>
>> One aspect that is different is that Javascript expressions end 
>> either at a semi colon, or at the earliest new line that makes a 
>> valid expression.
>
>
> As far as I know, this is not a valid definition for javascript 
> statements. It is true for control statements like "return" or "break" 
> but not for arithmetic statements.
>
> Consider,
>     <script>
>         a=3
>         +4
>         alert(a);
>     </script>
>
> It is legal and will result in an alert with the value 7. In general, 
> a new line only marks the end of a statement if the next token cannot 
> be part of the previous pattern.
>
>