Although I can see the OP's sentiment, the code enforcement that JSLint employs tends to make us into better programmers. The idea of dropping "superfluous"...
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Jordan
ljharb
Aug 22, 2010 7:07 pm
Yes, obviously I'd only want to use 1 tab per level. I just checked turning on strict whitespace - and apparently at some point the option started working with...
1435
Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 23, 2010 7:33 pm
... It isn't a matter of legitimacy, it is a matter of portability. I have not found that the forms you are demanding are actually used in the wild except by...
1436
Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 23, 2010 7:38 pm
... The web standards and their implementations are much too crappy for dependence on test suites. So I depend on something vastly more reliable: The users of...
1437
Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 23, 2010 7:49 pm
... Programming is all about making good trade offs. The better we are at making trade offs, the better our programs get. So let me suggest two rules from a...
1438
Mark Volkmann
mark_volkmann
Aug 23, 2010 8:11 pm
... The benefit I see is conciseness of functions without loss of readability. It is fairly common for me to write functions that test parameters and make a...
1439
Michael Mikowski
z_mikowski
Aug 23, 2010 10:57 pm
Hi Mark: And what is wrong with the following? ... function foo(a, b) { if (a < 0){ return -1;} if (a*2 > b){ return 1;} // Now have several lines of code (say...
1440
Mark Volkmann
mark_volkmann
Aug 24, 2010 2:27 am
If I understand correctly, in order to get your code to pass JSLint, you have to turn off strict whitespace checking. If you do that then the following will...
1441
abyssoft@...
abyssoft...
Aug 24, 2010 5:05 am
Mr. Crockford, I concede that I do see your point; but, at the same time is it not likely that without JSLint supporting in part some of the nearby Unicode...
1442
stephaneenst
Aug 24, 2010 12:50 pm
hi, I am using JSLint a lot to check Ce-HTML code and this standard requires every page to begin with the tag <?xml .... >. This is quite annoying because...
1443
Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 24, 2010 1:05 pm
... JSLint recognizes HTML. I have no interest in also recognizing XML....
1444
stephaneenst
Aug 24, 2010 1:28 pm
... It has been originally defined as xml but is now part of some HTML standard such as CE-HTML. This tag is widely used now such as <!-- which is originally...
1445
Cheney, Edward A SSG ...
sandyhead25
Aug 25, 2010 3:19 pm
Mark, My two cents is that considerations for presentation to humans are becoming more and more irrelevant in enterprise settings. A good example of why is...
1446
Cheney, Edward A SSG ...
sandyhead25
Aug 25, 2010 3:28 pm
George, To be fair it is unlikely that Unicode will become a functional part of the web, content aside, until RFC 3897 gains some traction over RFC 3896, which...
1447
Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 25, 2010 7:51 pm
TC39 is currently discussing this problem: Suppose you mistype ';' as '.'. var x=foo. if (a>b) -bar; It will be read as var x = foo.if(a > b) - bar; ES3 will...
1448
Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 25, 2010 10:17 pm
JSLint now requires that there be no whitespace or line break between a . and a property name. This has always been a good practice, and is now especially...
1449
Marcel Duran
marcelduran
Aug 25, 2010 10:44 pm
Couldn't it be optional? I believe this is useful when indenting long chain of methods like some popular JS frameworks do. The following although correct...
1450
Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jcmeyrignac
Aug 25, 2010 10:52 pm
... As a C coder, I prefer the following: function func1(foo) { var bar = foo .replace('o', '0') .replace('a', '4'); return bar; } In my opinion, the dot...
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Mark Volkmann
mark_volkmann
Aug 25, 2010 10:55 pm
... This is how I indent long chains of method calls. ... -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc....
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Rob Richardson
erobrich@...
Aug 26, 2010 12:09 am
I prefer to indent long chains by putting the dot at the beginning of the next line like so: var bar = foo .replace('o', '0') .click(function () { ...
1453
abyssoft@...
abyssoft...
Aug 26, 2010 1:59 am
Austin, Point well taken. And, thank you for the explanation. It clarify the why and the when. George...
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Frederik Dohr
ace_noone
Aug 26, 2010 7:19 am
... I would prefer this as well. My colleagues and I made a conscious decision to use a trailing dot to indicate line continuation, which turned out positive...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 26, 2010 12:57 pm
... I made the same decision as well, and I now believe that decision was incorrect. I recommend that you update your code....
1456
g2223060
Aug 26, 2010 5:53 pm
I agree about the leading dot- it is an obvious hint that the line continues the one above it. I dislike the trailing dot on the previous line. I think DC...
1457
Jim Auldridge
jaaulde
Aug 30, 2010 4:39 pm
I was testing a command line version of JSlint and noticed that == and != are disallowed no matter what I set eqeqeq to. i am running the version from 25 Aug...
1458
Harry Whitfield
harry152566
Aug 30, 2010 4:57 pm
... if (2 == 2) { } I've just run the above in Widget Tester and in the version of JSLint at http://www.JSLint.com/ . Both use edition 2010-08-28. I am seeing...
1459
Harry Whitfield
harry152566
Aug 30, 2010 5:09 pm
... if (2 == 2) { } I've also run the above in Widget Tester using JSLint edition 2010-08-25. I am seeing correct behaviour in both cases, with eqeqeq set to...
1460
Jim Auldridge
jaaulde
Aug 30, 2010 5:12 pm
Harry, Thanks for your time. In trying a reduced test case on the web version, I do see it working correctly. I will re-run my original test case and update...
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Jim Auldridge
jaaulde
Aug 30, 2010 5:19 pm
It appears the comparison I had modified for testing purposes was comparing a value to 0, for which the Lint requires === regardless of the setting of eqeqeq....
