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On Thursday, December 27, 2012, Martin Cooper wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Rick Waldron
> <waldron.r...@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'waldron.r...@gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
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>> 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:
>
>
Next time, please read the entire thread before wasting all of our time
trying to "correct" another poster, by saying almost exactly the same thing
as that poster, ie. me:
"Browser or node? In the browser, instanceof fails across frames/global
scopes"
Despite my being over-specific here, the cross-frame/global
scope/context failure
still applies anywhere that multiple globals can exist.
Rick
>
>
> 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
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>
> 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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