On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Jeffrey
<chjjeff...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Know what else would have spotted that error? A javascript
> implementation. The first time you run that code, v8 would spit out an
> error and give you the exact line number before it's even finished
> parsing. What's the point of a linter there?
>


Wow, you sound pretty confident.



> Aside from that, obviously the commas at the end really *do* stick out
> like a sore thumb if you do comma-first style.
>
> On Feb 23, 1:29 pm, Dean Landolt <d...@deanlandolt.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Arnout Kazemier <i...@3rd-eden.com>
> wrote:
> > > Comma first solves that perfectly, no need to jshint that ;D
> >
> > I wouldn't say *perfectly*. There's a gaping hole in the comma-first
> style:
> >
> > var arr = [ "foo",
> >           , "bar",
> >           , "baz"
> >           ]
> >
> > Did you spot the error right away? Neither did Brendan Eich. But a linter
> > would have.
> >
> > If anything this little deficiency in comma-first demands a linter.
>
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