Ian Serlin

Why you don’t skip adding curly braces on if statements in Javascript

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Don’t skimp on the curly braces wrapping if statements or other one-liner code blocks in Javascript because minifying/packing that Javascript can lead to avoidable and hard to track down errors, especially in IE which surprisingly cares a lot.

I’m super tired of seeing this bad practice and having it waste my time. You’re just lazy and that’s the worst kind of optimization.

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One Response to “Why you don’t skip adding curly braces on if statements in Javascript”

1. COry Says:
   February 1, 2010 at 3:07 pm

   LOL @ lazy ppl, srsly.