what is our goal here? this is all fascinating but rather than call out the warts in the language and say people should avoid them we should be trying to make node not break or behave in an unexpected way for people that don't know the language as well as we do.
node is not for javascript experts, it's for people that may be learning javascript, and we should avoid unexpected behavior. do we want to spend our time teaching people the cracks and crevices of JavaScript so they can use node or do we want to just make it work the way they'll expect? -Mikeal On Jun 23, 2012, at June 23, 20124:15 PM, Jorge wrote: > On 24/06/2012, at 00:43, Mikeal Rogers wrote: >> >> On Jun 23, 2012, at June 23, 201212:20 AM, Jorge wrote: >>> >>> On Jun 23, 2012, at 2:04 AM, Mikeal Rogers wrote: >>> >>>> process.env should be a real js object, or at least act like one. >>>> >>>> if we have to i'd say we make process.env a getter and build a real js >>>> object from the C++ stub that is currently there. >>>> >>>> people should not be expected to know or distinguish between normal js >>>> objects and crazy things from C++. >>>> >>> Object.create(null) objects are real JS objects and act like real JS >>> objects. >> >> yes, the language has warts, what is your point? > > > That I agree 100% with Bert: > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Bert Belder <bertbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> People shouldn't rely on prototype methods of objects that >> are used as hash tables. Same story for the http headers object, parsed >> querystring arguments etc. > > -- > Jorge. > > -- > 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
