It seems to me that there should be two kinds of lints. One to help
wayward programmers, especially newbies, and another to help experts find
typos. The last thing I want is someone else dictating style to me. I'm
rather obstinate that way.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Matt <hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Jeffrey <chjjeff...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I don't want to say all linting is useless. JS(L/H)int sure as hell is
>> though.
>>
>
> I hate the meme, but: ^ THIS.
>
>
>> JSLint is completely based on subjective experience over fact. What
>> was crockford's explanation of why he doesn't allow case fall-through?
>>
>> "One time my case fell-through *unintentionally* and bad things
>> happened, so now I think falling through *intentionally* is bad.*
>>
>> Did you spot the nonsequitur?
>>
>
> Yeah it's a complete nonsense stance. Another one for me: Crockford
> enforces that doing:
>
> for (var i=0,l=foo.length; i<l; i++) {
> ...
> }
>
> is a bad thing (the "var" declaration) and not allowed (and not
> configurable/switchable). I totally understand that the variables aren't
> technically scoped there by the virtual machine running the javascript, I
> don't care, because Javascript is written for humans, and that's where it
> is scoped for me, the programmer. Let me do it anyway!
>
> Matt.
>
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