... If you take that step, I hope you do so because you believe it is a good policy, not because of a tool like JSLint. Personally, fwiw, I think initializing...
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R. Mark Volkmann
mark_volkmann
Aug 5, 2011 12:33 pm
One reason I like that style, declaring all local variables on one line and initializing them later, is that it reminds me of Smalltalk. ... R. Mark Volkmann ...
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s_lubowsky
Aug 5, 2011 3:36 pm
I just grabbed the latest jslint (8/3/11) and suddenly its complaining that using "this" is a constructor is a strict violation. I searched around a bit but...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 5, 2011 10:58 pm
... Thanks. Please try it now....
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Phil
druid_rpg
Aug 6, 2011 10:37 pm
I am having a problem with the latest version of JSLint. Environment: Windows XP Pro SP4; FF5.0; jslint.com Edition 2011-08-05 I am getting: Problem at line...
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Phil
druid_rpg
Aug 6, 2011 10:55 pm
The last few versions [the last couple of days] of jslint have been complaining about a Strict violation for every reference to this in my scripts. Is there an...
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Frederik Dohr
ace_noone
Aug 7, 2011 7:37 am
... There are a plenty of resources on ES5 strict mode, e.g. http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/strict-mode-is-coming-to-town/ ...
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Phil
druid_rpg
Aug 8, 2011 7:16 pm
... http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/javascript-strict-mode/ ... I have gone through those links (and more), but do not see anything about...
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paulcrowder1979
Aug 16, 2011 1:58 pm
Crockford explains his reasoning in this post <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jslint_com/message/1553> . Personally I find this rule unacceptable, and...
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paulcrowder1979
Aug 16, 2011 2:09 pm
This code fails because strict mode prohibits function declarations in conditional blocks like "switch" and "if" statements, but JSLint doesn't catch this....
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benxwhite
Aug 16, 2011 3:20 pm
var getGroupId = function (group) { /*jslint regexp:true*/ return group.name.replace(/<.+?>|\W/g, '').toLowerCase(); /*jslint regexp:false*/ }; This throws an...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 16, 2011 4:39 pm
... Thanks. Please try it now....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 16, 2011 4:45 pm
... /*jslint*/ directives are treated as statements because they respect block scope. Because they respect block scope, your second directive is useless and...
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Phil
druid_rpg
Aug 17, 2011 3:16 am
... Ah! Thanks. Following through the rest of that thread, the solution is simple [for my case anyway]. Just change the function definitions from function...
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Marcos Zanona
marcos.zanona
Aug 17, 2011 8:49 am
Actually if you work with even listeners it is quite easy to understand why `this` isn't accepted in all cases: ### In the following case `this` is accepted...
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pierremartineau
Aug 22, 2011 7:01 pm
... I believe this is a similar problem: with these options: /*jslint es5: true, indent: 2 */ JSLint objects: "Bad for in variable 'a'." on this code: var a, b...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 22, 2011 10:00 pm
... JSLint expects that the induction variable is local to the function containing the loop....
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paulcrowder1979
Aug 23, 2011 7:13 pm
I'm generally a fan of the whitespace rules that JSLint enforces, but there's on exception I'd like to see implemented. When I build an HTML string in...
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William Chapman
jeddahbill
Aug 23, 2011 7:32 pm
Would like to voice strong support for paulcrowder1979's suggestion. I feel that JSLint should be quite liberal when evaluating indentation of any literal...
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cheesox
Aug 23, 2011 8:30 pm
DC - Thanks for your ongoing efforts maintaining jslint. There's a conflict between the options specified in the call to JSLINT(), and the options specified in...
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Phil
druid_rpg
Aug 23, 2011 8:32 pm
... [ .. snip .. snip .. ] ... JSLint supports 'scoped' control comments. I *assume* you either do not have a /*jslint ... */ comment in your code, or it at...
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paulcrowder1979
Aug 23, 2011 9:03 pm
I wasn't aware of the block-level option, so thanks for pointing that out. I'll just move the code that builds the HTML into its own function and specify the...
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Satyam
satyamutsa
Aug 24, 2011 6:51 am
You can also place the spaces doing the indentation within the string: ....'....<whatever>;' + instead of: ........'<whatever>' + So much concatenating IS...
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paulcrowder1979
Aug 24, 2011 1:29 pm
I've avoided putting the spacing in the string itself since it wouldn't get minified out. As for the concatenation cost, remember that I use YUI Compressor to...
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Chris
altearius
Aug 25, 2011 2:41 pm
Hello, JavaScript 1.8.5 introduces a new method of the Object constructor called Object.keys, which produces an array of the enumerable properties of a given...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Aug 25, 2011 3:10 pm
... No. Object(o) was not created for that purpose. That code is depending on an edge case. Avoid the edges. Use this instead: typeof o === 'object' && !o ...
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Jakob Kruse
thekrucible
Aug 25, 2011 3:30 pm
var o = {}; ... typeof o === 'object' && !o ... Doesn't seem like a very good object detection test? What should it have said? /Jakob _____ From: Douglas...
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Ben White
benxwhite
Aug 25, 2011 3:36 pm
I think he meant to type this for object detection. typeof o === 'object' && !!o Ben ... said? ... called Object.keys, which produces an array of the...
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sandyhead25
Aug 25, 2011 3:57 pm
Actually what you are describing is not minification. It is obfuscation, which is different. YUI can do both. You are also confusing minification in markup...
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maddinr92
Sep 2, 2011 1:33 pm
First, thank you for your great validation tool. Demo-JavaScript: var test = function () { var letsHaveSomeFun = {}; for (var entry in letsHaveSomeFun) { ...
