9.2 Commonly misunderstood style rules
Here is a collection of lesser-known or commonly misunderstood facts aboutGoogle Style for JavaScript. (The following are true statements; this is not alist of myths.
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- Neither a copyright statement nor
@author
credit is required in a sourcefile. (Neither is explicitly recommended, either.) - There is no hard and fast rule governing how to order the members of aclass (??).
- Empty blocks can usually be represented concisely as
{}
, as detailed in(??). - The prime directive of line-wrapping is: prefer to break at a highersyntactic level (??).
- Non-ASCII characters are allowed in string literals, comments and JSDoc,and in fact are recommended when they make the code easier to read than theequivalent Unicode escape would (??).