The feature in question is intended as an error correction for those cases where...

jcoffey on April 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brendan Eich: The infernal semicolon

The feature in question is intended as an error correction for those cases where the programmer accidentally left out newline. A misguided feature maybe, but it's clearly being abused by intentionally leaving out every (or most) newlines.