Statements affected by automatic semicolon insertion

• empty statement
• var statement
• expression statement
• do-while statement
• continue statement
• break statement
• return statement
• throw statement

Examples:

When the end of the input stream of tokens is encountered and the parser is unable to parse the input token stream as a single complete Program, then a semicolon is automatically inserted at the end of the input stream.

a = b
++c
// is transformed to:
a = b;
++c;

x
++
y
// is transformed to:
x;
++y;

Array indexing/literals

console.log("Hello, World")
[1,2,3].join()
// is transformed to:
console.log("Hello, World")[(1, 2, 3)].join();

Return statement:

return 
  "something";
// is transformed to
return;
  "something";