Why so many semicolons in JavaScript?

Question

I tend to be a prolific user of semicolons in my JavaScript:

var x = 1;
var y = 2;
if (x==y){do something};

I recently noticed that I was looki

Answer 1

Apart from code readability, the use of semi-colons comes into picture when you actually try to minify your code. After minification, if there are no semicolons in your code, javascript engine might fail to know which statement ends where as there will be no longer be any new lines in the code.