GetPluginSettings -> Unexcepted token

Although my JavaScript skills are rusty, but what's the difference?

function GetPluginSettings()
{
     return
          {
          "name":               "Demo",
          "id":               "Demo",
          "description":     "Demo description.",
          "author":          "Demo",
          "help url":          "http://demo.com",
          "category":          "Demo",
          "type":               "object", // not in layout
          "rotatable":     false,
          "flags":          pf_singleglobal
     };
};

function GetPluginSettings()
{
     return {
          "name":               "Demo",
          "id":               "Demo",
          "description":     "Demo description.",
          "author":          "Demo",
          "help url":          "http://demo.com",
          "category":          "Demo",
          "type":               "object", // not in layout
          "rotatable":     false,
          "flags":          pf_singleglobal
     };
};

Your 'id:' should be "demo" or your folder's name should be "Demo".

Javascript automatic semicolon insertion

The code

eturn

{

is parsed as

eturn;

{

which means 'return undefined;' followed by a chunk of JSON which is then ignored. The solution is to use

eturn {

all on one line, then it won't insert a semicolon for you.

Yep, Javascript is mad.

Thank you for the explanation. I already thought I'm stupid <img src="smileys/smiley8.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Indeed pure madness.

The style

if()

{

}

is incorrect in javascript, and must be written as

if(){

}

Is it? The entire javascript runtime is written in the style

if ()

{

}

It works just fine. I think the semicolon insertion rules don't break that.

Actually I was wrong, it works for if() and functions, but breaks for returns:

Check 30:40

Maybe ECMAScript 5 strict mode is fixing it, I don't know, but it certainly breaks things in conventional javascript in some occasions.

I prefer the curly braces below the statement too, but what can I do? :(