On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > I took Neil's point to favor not only a separate lint-like tool > (which some find painful to procure and remember to run), but > possibly something like Cormac's idea I mentioned a few messages > ago: a type checker that runs when the code loaded in a web app > seems complete, and gives warnings to some console -- but which does > not prevent code from running. > > Neil, how'd that strike you? It could be built into some developer- > extension for the browser, so you wouldn't have to remember to run > jslint.
Logistically I prefer to run the checks before it gets to the browser (i.e. via Makefile as the first step of build-package-deploy in a complicated (read: mature) in-house development environment) simply because it shaves precious time off the edit-build-test-debug cycle. But that's personal preference, works styles vary. The concept is spot-on as far as I'm concerned, and I see no reason why the same underlying tool couldn't be built to suit both environments. (Thanks for asking.) _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
