Hi, Yes you were right - I knew I'd missed something obvious (first day back after Easter Hols so my brain not full functioning ;) ) I still have Error: ...
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Merlin
harry152566
Apr 20, 2009 2:46 pm
... Pending resolution of this issue, I've fixed Widget Tester (now version 8.0.5) so that it downloads from http://www.JSLint.com/fulljslint.js no more than...
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mnewton32@...
mnewton32
Apr 20, 2009 2:52 pm
Escape is not a good idea, or so I've been told. Use encodeURIComponent instead. Or I think that's it. Not at a PC right now. Sent from my BlackBerry device on...
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Jakob Kruse
thekrucible
Apr 21, 2009 9:21 pm
I'm happy to announce an update to the JSLint Multi widget. The new widget has been submitted to Yahoo Widget Gallery, but they update very slowly, so for now,...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 22, 2009 2:37 am
... http://www.JSLint.com/jslint.js will be kept in sync with fulljslint.js....
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Merlin
harry152566
Apr 23, 2009 12:00 am
Widget Tester Widget (version 8.0.7) with JSLint 2009-04-19 is now at http://tinyurl.com/5unocx . This version has an option to download and use the latest...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 24, 2009 9:32 pm
JSLint now checks that the keys in a JSON object are all unique....
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speedomodel@...
speedomodel...
Apr 24, 2009 9:55 pm
JSLint produces "Unexpected space" errors for the following: var myArray = [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]; Shouldn't having "Tolerate sloppy line breaking" on allow for this?...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 25, 2009 9:43 pm
... I never imagined that someone would insert a line break before a comma. But I agree that "Tolerate sloppy" should allow it. It does now....
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Jakob Kruse
thekrucible
Apr 26, 2009 9:48 am
Question: Did you really mean JSON object, or JavaScript object? JSLint will now complain if I have code such as this: ? var myJSON =...
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kevin_hakanson
Apr 27, 2009 4:43 pm
I was code reviewing some code, which is similar to the structure below: var x = { "y" : "not test"}; var z = x.y = "test"; It gets several errors, and the...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 27, 2009 8:31 pm
... JSLint has looked at uniqueness in object literals for a long time. It now also looks for uniqueness in JSON objects....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 27, 2009 10:18 pm
... JSLint will now accept var z = x.y = "test"; It will continue to reject var z = x = "test"; because a common error is to think that it means the same thing...
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Stepan Reznikov
stepan.reznikov
Apr 28, 2009 8:43 am
... Maybe JSLint should reject it only when the x variable has not been declared before?...
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Jakob Kruse
thekrucible
Apr 28, 2009 10:59 am
Hi, In my opinion ”var z = x = ”test”;” is bad programming style which can mask several errors. I’m glad that JSLint will warn me if I accidentally...
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stepan.reznikov
Apr 28, 2009 1:10 pm
I have this line of code: new Something(); and JSLint gives me this in its report: Error: Problem at line 7 character 9: 'new' should not be used as a...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 28, 2009 5:26 pm
... new is used to construct new instances of objects. It should not be used for side effects. The next edition will downgrade to a warning....
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pauanyu
Apr 30, 2009 4:06 pm
Run the following code in JSLint: <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> div { /**/ } </style> </head> </html> Note the (incorrect) errors that come up: ...
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pauanyu
Apr 30, 2009 4:15 pm
... I personally use jEdit. It has a plugin that can run JSLint on your files, either when you save, or switch files....
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Apr 30, 2009 5:58 pm
... They have been fixed. Thanks for the report....
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Merlin
harry152566
May 1, 2009 12:09 pm
Widget Tester Widget (version 8.2) with JSLint 2009-04-30 is now at http://tinyurl.com/5unocx . This version has the option to download and use the latest...
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pauanyu
May 1, 2009 4:23 pm
var global; (function () { var local; }()); Note that it lists local as Unused, but not global. I'm not sure if this is considered a bug or not, but it seems a...
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Michael Lorton
mlorton
May 1, 2009 4:26 pm
In a formal sense, it's a bug, but how could it be fixed? A global variable might be used by a different script, or by a bit of Javascript in an event...
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pauanyu
May 1, 2009 4:31 pm
test = function () {}; self.test = function () {}; window.test = function () {}; test(); JSLint sees the first three lines as different, even though they are...
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pauanyu
May 1, 2009 4:36 pm
... As to your first point.. JSLint supports the /*global */ construct for global variables defined elsewhere....
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Michael Lorton
mlorton
May 1, 2009 4:47 pm
The /*global */ tag solves the reverse problem: how tell if a variable used here is declared elsewhere. Perhaps we need a /*external */ tag that asserts a...
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Jakob Kruse
thekrucible
May 1, 2009 4:53 pm
I believe that unless you are in a browser, ”test” would be undefined in this case. First example is missing a “var”, second and third defines...
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pauanyu
May 1, 2009 5:03 pm
... Yes, and there's an "assume a browser" option that specifies browser objects (like window). You also don't need a var to declare a global variable, but...
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Jakob Kruse
thekrucible
May 1, 2009 8:25 pm
Actually, that is very common. The purpose of most libraries is to declare global variables for use elsewhere. /Jakob From: jslint_com@yahoogroups.com...
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Jakob Kruse
thekrucible
May 1, 2009 8:37 pm
Again, the ”assume a browser” option of JSLint, AFAIK, only means that you don’t have to explicitly define the global object “window” and others. It...
