I was very surprised by the following behavior

f1 = (x) => {
    return /* Comment on x. */ x
}

f2 = (x) => {
    return /*
             Comment on x.
           */ x
}

console.log(f1(1)) // => 1
console.log(f2(2)) // => undefined

This is clearly because f2 is parsed with automatic semicolon insertion as

f2 = (x) => {
    return;
    x;
};

and indeed, Firefox signals that there's dead code after the return.

Is this really what was meant by Automatic Semicolon Insertion? Is this an implementation issue, or a language issue?

EDIT: someone seems to believe that my question is the same as Why does the value returned should be on the same line as the return statement in JavaScript?. Well, sorry, it is not. I have put a comment that spans over several lines. And in usual parsing techniques, comments behave as if they did not exist, so f2 should be equivalent to

f2 = (x) => {
  return x
}

My question is whether this is a defect in the implementation, or whether this handling of comments is conformant to the standard. Why is the multiline comment treated like a linebreak instead of being ignored?