On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Thom Blake <thethombl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Feb 23, 3:57 pm, Dean Landolt <d...@deanlandolt.com> wrote: > > > Besides, emacs would kindly have underlined that bit in red for me. > > > (and turned yellow any globals) > > > > That's called a "linter" ;) > > Funny, I would have just called it a properly-functioning code > editor. Besides, the first one is a syntax error - aren't linters for > catching things less obvious than syntax errors? > Linting tools are for static analysis -- static meaning it can be applied at design time (e.g. in your editor), not runtime. Yes, the vm will catch syntax errors at runtime but what's the point of delaying the inevitable if you're already parsing the AST to lint. But just so you know this isn't a syntax error. It's a perfectly legal array hole, and could introduce all kinds of insidious, nearly invisible bugs -- a treasure trove of jswtf. And I bet that for an array with a number of items these kind of holes wouldn't be nearly as visible as you imply. Amusingly one of the main arguments *for* comma-first is that it's much harder to see things on the end of a line than the beginning. But this is all subjective, and it's not worth fighting over. But it's important to note that this array hole issue *is* a problem comma-first is subject to that comma-last isn't. But I'm not trying to get into a style guide pissing match -- I was just trying to point out another subtle advantage of linters, especially if you practice comma-first. (FWIW I haven't bothered to configure my editor to lint for me -- I should probably do that :) > I'm terribly confused when people say they let stuff like that into > production - "What, you weren't notified of the error as soon as you > typed it?" > Yeah, you're probably right. I don't typically use a linter but when I use an editor that has this built in I do find it helpful. I've just been too lazy to bother configuring my typical editor (Sublime Text 2) w/ this functionality. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
