除了可维护性，第一种方法消除了意外创建全局变量的可能性:

(function () {
var variable1 = "Hello, World!" // Semicolon is missed out accidentally
var variable2 = "Testing..."; // Still a local variable
var variable3 = 42;
}());

而第二种方式就不那么宽容了:

(function () {
var variable1 = "Hello, World!" // Comma is missed out accidentally
    variable2 = "Testing...", // Becomes a global variable
    variable3 = 42; // A global variable as well
}());

我唯一的，也是最重要的，逗号的用法是在for循环中:

for (var i = 0, n = a.length; i < n; i++) {
  var e = a[i];
  console.log(e);
}

我在JavaScript中查看了一下这个是否可以。

即使它是可行的，一个问题仍然是n是否对函数是局部的。

这验证了n是本地的:

a = [3, 5, 7, 11];
(function l () { for (var i = 0, n = a.length; i < n; i++) {
  var e = a[i];
  console.log(e);
}}) ();
console.log(typeof n == "undefined" ?
  "as expected, n was local" : "oops, n was global");

在语言之间切换，我一时拿不准。

除了可维护性，第一种方法消除了意外创建全局变量的可能性:

(function () {
var variable1 = "Hello, World!" // Semicolon is missed out accidentally
var variable2 = "Testing..."; // Still a local variable
var variable3 = 42;
}());

而第二种方式就不那么宽容了:

(function () {
var variable1 = "Hello, World!" // Comma is missed out accidentally
    variable2 = "Testing...", // Becomes a global variable
    variable3 = 42; // A global variable as well
}());

第二种方法的主要问题是，到目前为止还没有IDE支持这种风格。 你不能折叠这些结构。

var variable1 = "Hello, World!";
var variable2 = "Testing...";
var variable3 = 42;

比:

var variable1 = "Hello, World!",
    variable2 = "Testing...",
    variable3 = 42;

但它们做的事情是一样的。

ECMAScript 2015引入了解构赋值，效果非常好:

[a, b] = [1, 2]

A等于1 b等于2。