... If indentation becomes that big a problem that you can no longer read your code you can either make design decisions more conservatively, reduce the size...
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Michael Lorton
mlorton
Jun 20, 2009 2:51 pm
... The problem with excessive nesting is not (or not primarily) that it is difficult to read. The problem is that it is difficult to understand. In formal...
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crlender
Jun 20, 2009 3:24 pm
... There's a difference for you? ... If you start reading a function at a |break| statement in the middle, yeah, you will have to backtrack to the top to know...
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Randall Lee Spence
analogueweb
Jun 20, 2009 3:56 pm
... to suggest that JSLint optionally generate warnings for "continue";, "break", and "return", and that option be turning by default, at least for the first...
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mbrrtt
Jun 20, 2009 6:06 pm
Another small bug: JSLint doesn't like it if you break the /*jslint ... */ line after a colon. (It does accept line breaks after a comma.) /*jslint bitwise:...
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Michael Lorton
mlorton
Jun 20, 2009 7:45 pm
Since everyone asked, here is my personal Scale of Evil Control Structures, from most to least: goto -- so evil, you probably shouldn't even use a language...
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sandyhead25
Jun 20, 2009 7:59 pm
... Break is not evil. It forces early return from a loop, which results in a value for the iterator that is neither the start or end value of the loop. That...
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Randall Lee Spence
analogueweb
Jun 20, 2009 8:47 pm
... I am sure that if this topic is debated long enough, almost every statement or method will have someone calling it evil or declaring its use as counter...
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jeddahbill
Jun 20, 2009 9:38 pm
... Good one, Randall! Dittos!...
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Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jcmeyrignac
Jun 20, 2009 10:02 pm
... You forgot 'while', which can be replaced by for. ... Sorry, but it doesn't pass JsLint: Problem at line 3 character 2: Missing semicolon. JC...
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Michael Lorton
mlorton
Jun 21, 2009 1:07 am
... How is that a good one? Yes, nothing on this earth is perfectly good and few things are perfectly evil, but we still have the daily task of figuring out...
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Randall Lee Spence
analogueweb
Jun 21, 2009 2:03 am
... I agree Michael, that was a good one! Reductionist sarcasm aside, I'd like to state again that I do agree with JSLint throwing a warning on continue, I...
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jslint_com@yahoogroup...
Jun 21, 2009 2:07 am
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the jslint_com group: Should JSLint complain about continue statements? o Yes o No To vote, please...
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pauanyu
Jun 21, 2009 6:40 am
... I gave some more thought to this. Right now, if you want to use the global "name" and local "name", JSLint says you *must* put either "var name;" or...
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pauanyu
Jun 21, 2009 6:52 am
I think JSLint should complain about "continue";, but have an option to turn it off, if you want. I don't see that listed as an option in the poll, however....
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Michael Lorton
mlorton
Jun 21, 2009 7:17 am
Pretty much everything in JSLint has an option to turn it off. M. ________________________________ From: pauanyu <pcxunlimited@...> To:...
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pauanyu
Jun 21, 2009 8:11 am
... Yes, but not everything.. you can't turn off this: if (condition) doSomething; while (condition) doSomething; There are others as well, I'm sure, such as...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jun 21, 2009 1:06 pm
... I don't think continue is important enough to get an option. So the question is should it be treated as with. I think continue is unnecessary. There are a...
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Michael Lorton
mlorton
Jun 21, 2009 4:40 pm
Huh. Didn't know about that one. Maybe we should have JSUnLint, goes through and corrects any correctable errors; e.g., put the missing braces around the...
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pauanyu
Jun 22, 2009 6:20 am
... I believe there are already several JavaScript "beautifiers", designed to unminify code. I'm sure they could support something like this....
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Jakob Kruse
thekrucible
Jun 22, 2009 6:31 am
That would kind of defeat the whole purpose of JSLint I think. When JSLint complains about something in your code it’s because there’s a good chance it...
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sandyhead25
Jun 22, 2009 11:11 am
... There is a reason why the YUI compressor is in Java and is not available in JavaScript. It adds curly braces to conditions which do not have them and it...
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pauanyu
Jun 22, 2009 11:52 am
... I believe he was referring to a new program, separate from JSLint, and not JSLint itself. Note how he said "JSUnLint"; as opposed to "JSLint"....
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mbrrtt
Jun 22, 2009 3:18 pm
This may be slightly offtopic, but since the question relates to proper style and there are many JS experts in this group, I'm posing the question here. Can...
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mbrrtt
Jun 22, 2009 3:21 pm
And does anyone know how to write code and (especially) how to get proper indentation in posts to this group?...
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pauanyu
Jun 23, 2009 8:08 am
... As to your first question... In my experience, yes. It's treated as if you had used two separate vars, so the order is maintained. No clue if it'll stay...
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christian.wirkus
christian.wi...
Jun 23, 2009 12:47 pm
var x = 1, y = 2 * x, z = x + y; x === 1; y === 2; z === 3; You can rely on the evaluation to be from left to right or top to bottom. How to indent? I don't...
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Noah Peters
boyopeg
Jun 29, 2009 5:00 pm
With the newest version of JSLint I am having a frequent error on this code block: if (typeof console==="undefined") { console = { log: function() {}, dir:...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jun 29, 2009 6:04 pm
... Either turn off the Assume a Browser option, or add this comment: /*global console: true*/...
