No warning for semi-colon after if-condition

[partridgetim]

if (false);
{
alert('this will execute. The semi-colon after the if-condition is likely a mistake but no warning is given');
}

[jugglinmike]

Thanks for the report. If you enable JSHint's curly option, then you will receive warnings about the use of a "brace-less" if statements. That will catch the type of programming mistakes that your example describes. Does that work for you?

[partridgetim]

Sure, that would catch this mistake, but sometimes I want to use a braceless if statement so I'll just work without enabling that option. It took me a few minutes to spot the semi-colon. I debugged and couldn't believe my eyes when the condition evaluated to false and my if-block still executed. I guess this is legal JavaScript: a braceless if-statement followed by a block statement. It just seemed to me like this was a perfect spot for jshint to give a warning like "Did you intend to write a braceless if-statement followed by an unlabelled block-statement or is the semi-colon after the if-condition a mistake?" Maybe it is such an edge case though that it's not worth implementing but I just thought I'd pass it along in case. It's my reflex of adding semi-colons at the end of lines that bit me. Thanks for the quick response and congrats on the great tool!