On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.r...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Inline...
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> On Thursday, December 27, 2012, Mark Hahn wrote:
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>> Why not also allow readDir? It would cause no harm to do so.
>>
>> This isn't node, but what also bugs me is typeof and instanceof. I
>> cringe every time I type them.
>
>
> Completely irrelevant to the discussion... but you have my attention
> now—I'm curious to know what sort of program scenarios you've found
> yourself in where instanceof was the "go to" solution (but painful to use?),
> aside from useful type checking (types as in "object types", not as in
> "data-types"). If you want to know if x has Foo constructor in its
> prototype chain, instanceof has you covered.
>
Unless you're working with VMs, that is. Then you might not get the results
you expect. For example, this:
var vm = require('vm'),
sandbox = {};
vm.runInNewContext("myDate = new Date()", sandbox);
console.log(sandbox.myDate instanceof Date);
will output 'false', because Date in the new context is not the same as
Date in the original context. Just one of those little things to be aware
of.
--
Martin Cooper
Rick
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>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:47 AM, David Habereder
>> <david.habere...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > That clears that up. Thanks.
>> >
>> > Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2012 20:36:30 UTC+1 schrieb Matt Sergeant:
>> >>
>> >> I think you'll likely find where it isn't the case (such as readdir)
>> the
>> >> name comes from the POSIX function name. There's no readfile function
>> in
>> >> POSIX, but there is readdir(). The only other case seems to be
>> readlink,
>> >> which is the same issue.
>> >>
>> >> http://linux.die.net/man/2/readdir
>> >> http://linux.die.net/man/2/readlink
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:02 PM, David Habereder <david.h...@gmail.com
>> >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> I am quite new to node.js.
>> >>>
>> >>> As far as I can see the method names aren't very consistent. Take the
>> >>> methods from File System for example: http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html
>> >>> It is ".readFile" (Camelcase)
>> >>> But it is ".readdir" (all lowercase)
>> >>>
>> >>> There are a few more such cases where I don't see a pattern when
>> >>> camelcase is used and when not.
>> >>>
>> >>> You could say that this is absolutely irrelevant and you would be
>> right.
>> >>> But it annoys me :-(
>> >>> And it reminds me of PHP syntax garbage.
>> >>>
>> >>> Is there any interest in getting all method names either camelcase or
>> >>> lowercase, or will this just stay as is?
>> >>>
>> >>> ~dave
>> >>>
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