:-) Well put Andrea. Benoit
On Jan 5, 2013, at 22:38, Andrea Giammarchi <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly Brendan, I could not agree more and this is my No. 1 pitfall about > JS: developers often not doing real work complaining about stuff that > developers doing real work don't even care about or never ever had to worry > about. > > In any case they can learn and understand the feature/problem using the > feature when needed, avoiding its weakness when necessary. > > About falsy and truthy, null and undefined, who cares ... seriously, and to > be honest, that's not a pitfall, is rather a feature when needed as it is for > all other scripting languages as long as you know what you are doing ... and > no programming language will save you if you don't know what you are doing > and it's your duty, as developer, to understand the language you are using if > that's your job. > > Again, about falsy ... if I see a glass empty, it does not mean I used a > microscope to understand no water is left in the whole glass surface ... I > just consider that empty and I add water on top. > > Engineers have the tendency to over complicate even simple tasks as the one > I've just described ... what is the benefit? What is the result? That the day > falsy values in JS will disappear libraries authors will implement an > isFalsy(value) function/method and use it 90% of the time regretting the > trick with == disappeared ... isn't it ;-) > > Last, but not least, happy new year to everyone :-) > > br > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I've never heard anyone doing real work complain > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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