running the closure compiler from The Google over jslint.js now throws errors. it is offended for example by the usage of 'function' as a property name. For...
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Ben White
benxwhite
Mar 1, 2013 10:49 pm
Previously it would only warn you if you used both spaces and tabs. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Ben White
benxwhite
Mar 1, 2013 10:49 pm
It supports tabs, or did historically... ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Ben White
benxwhite
Mar 1, 2013 10:49 pm
Typically indentation spaces/tabs are all removed when you run them through a minification process, so I personally don't care either way. I think most IDEs...
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Kirk Cerny
kirk.cerny
Mar 1, 2013 9:31 pm
I am not sure what you mean as one tab. Did you try it in the JsLint version from 5 months ago. It accepts my code file tat has at least 5 tab levels of...
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Jakob Kruse
thekrucible
Mar 1, 2013 9:26 pm
Actually, prior to the creation of the indent option, jslint only supported "one tab" or "four spaces" for indentation. Personally I only use spaces because...
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Felix E. Klee
feklee
Mar 1, 2013 6:56 pm
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Doc Emmett Splendid ... Not to start an argument here, but don't you think that this semantic information is redundant? In a...
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Felix E. Klee
feklee
Mar 1, 2013 6:52 pm
... Seems like you are right. I just tested with a minimalist example, where `use strict` is indented with a single tab: (function () { 'use strict'; }()); ...
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Doc Emmett Splendid
emmett.thesane
Mar 1, 2013 6:48 pm
Hi Kirk, I also have a strong preference for tabs, as they carry the semantic notion of "one level of indentation". Usually the arguments I see in favour of...
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Kirk Cerny
kirk.cerny
Mar 1, 2013 6:42 pm
I used webarchive.org to go back and use a previous version of JsLint. The version of JsLint from 2012-10-02, about 5 months ago allows tabs instead of spaces....
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Felix E. Klee
feklee
Mar 1, 2013 6:29 pm
... JSLint never supported tabs, as far as I am aware of. You can specify indentation (e.g. `/*jslint indent: 4 */`), but that is for spaces. Possibly it would...
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Kirk Cerny
kirk.cerny
Mar 1, 2013 6:23 pm
I am sending this again because I can not believe their are no comments about this. The debate between spaces and tabs has been raging for years. I have been...
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Kirk Cerny
kirk.cerny
Feb 28, 2013 6:12 pm
I have been using tabs in my JavaScript because that is the convention throughout the web application I am working on. The application includes PHP, ...
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benquarmby
Feb 27, 2013 8:30 pm
This is not official, so your mileage may vary, but there is a project to provide some background for JSLint's rules - http://jslinterrors.com/ Although DC is...
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douglascrockford
douglascrock...
Feb 27, 2013 5:56 pm
... Perhaps there should be a general warning attached to every warning: If you ignore JSLint's advice, you may get bitten....
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Robert
rpeyser47
Feb 27, 2013 5:54 pm
Having just gotten bitten by this and not realizing the implications, could we have the message: Missing radix parameter. changed to something more alarming...
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Heinz Rasched
raschedh
Feb 26, 2013 8:24 pm
... Because having been blamed with your usual accusations yada yada, I take the liberty to thank you for the context coloring stuff in jslint ! Not because i...
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Marcel Duran
marcelduran
Feb 25, 2013 6:29 pm
That's true, however html collections are considered live which means they're automatically updated when the underlying document is changed. ... -- ...
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Mike On Mobile
z_mikowski
Feb 25, 2013 5:42 pm
At one time it was considered best practice to store the array length in a local variable and use that in the comparison . That was because the object property...
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John Hawkinson
john.hawkinson
Feb 25, 2013 1:45 pm
Heinz Rasched <raschedh@...> wrote on Mon, 25 Feb 2013 ... From an idempotency perspective, you're better off with the the initialization in the for loop...
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Jonas Trollvik
jontro123
Feb 25, 2013 1:43 pm
What is the benefit of caching the array length here? I doubt it has any effect on performance. function f(an_array) { 'use strict' var i; for (i = 0; i <...
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Heinz Rasched
raschedh
Feb 25, 2013 1:29 pm
I knew that you wouldn't like that. ... That depends on the context of the `(;' ... I do not. ... My programs are far from looking like that. I never look for...
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douglascrockford
douglascrock...
Feb 25, 2013 1:21 pm
... (; looks like a mistake. Do not use forms that look like mistakes. To make it easier to find the needle, make your program look less like a haystack....
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Heinz Rasched
raschedh
Feb 25, 2013 12:37 pm
I like to give my vars a value when I declare them, whenever that is possible. JsLint does not allow me to do that in one special case: function f(an_array) { ...
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benquarmby
Feb 23, 2013 12:25 am
Awesome. Our shop has just upgraded to 2012, so it looks like its business as usual :)...
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Luke Page
page.luke...
Feb 22, 2013 7:05 am
The vs 2008 plugin uses wsh but I wrote the plugins for 2010 and 2012 and those use v8 wrapped in c#. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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benquarmby
Feb 22, 2013 2:28 am
Understandable requirement. I guess the authors of the Visual Studio plugin (which we use in our dev workflow) will need to figure out another way to run...
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Felix E. Klee
feklee
Feb 20, 2013 2:15 pm
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:36 PM, douglascrockford ... Any idea what is a good method to run JSLint offline on Windows (for live linting in EMACS)? Can it be...
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douglascrockford
douglascrock...
Feb 19, 2013 11:37 pm
JSLint now requires an ECMAScript Fifth Edition engine to run. It will continue to evaluate programs written for ES3 or ES5....
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douglascrockford
douglascrock...
Feb 19, 2013 6:20 pm
The experiment of using Yahoo Group's Database to manage JSLint configurations has not turned out well. So now I am going to try using Github's wiki. If you...
