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Re: Request: option to disable ['something'] is better written in d

Douglas Crockford — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:26:32 GMT

... /*jslint browser: true, sub: true */ window['alert']('ok');

Re: Request: option to disable ['something'] is better written in d

Douglas Crockford — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:25:25 GMT

... I have added a 'sub' option to JSLint. It turns off the check for suboptimal subscript notation.

Re: Closure function in a loop with parameters triggering 'awkward u

Douglas Crockford — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:35:56 GMT

... It has been fixed. Thank you for report it.

Re: "download" versions of jslint

Douglas Crockford — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:18:20 GMT

... Yes. ... JSLint has been around since 2001. But this group is a recent thing.

"download" versions of jslint

Andy Stevens — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:16:24 GMT

Hi, Would I be right in thinking the "download" version of jslint.js linked to on http://www.jslint.com/rhino/index.html is a concatenation of

Request: option to disable ['something'] is better written in dot n

saj14saj — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:15:26 GMT

I understand and agree with the warning about dot notation in general. My use case for requesting a configuration option to disable it is this: I am parsing an

Closure function in a loop with parameters triggering 'awkward use o

saj14saj — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:11:06 GMT

The following code:

 function testEnvironment() { for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) { (function (i) { console.log('Closure with i counting'); } (i)); } }

Should JSLint flag window.execScript as evil?

kevin_hakanson — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:50:03 GMT

I probably will get flamed for using eval to set global variables, but I needed it at the time. Using eval in IE didn't work as I needed, so I had to use the

Re: "The Function constructor is eval." - eval or evil?

kevin_hakanson — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:48:35 GMT

... Between the time I posted this and you replied, I read "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and now that makes sense. I had never thought of using new

Re: "The Function constructor is eval." - eval or evil?

Douglas Crockford — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:15:18 GMT

... It was intentional. The Function constructor is a form of eval.

"The Function constructor is eval." - eval or evil?

kevin_hakanson — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:12:22 GMT

I was looking through the fulljslint.js source and ran across the snippet below. Should the message say "... is evil"? Is this some sort of Freudian slip?

Re: Rhino Version up-to-date?

Douglas Crockford — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:48:08 GMT

... the same as the web ... noticed (missing the ... The Rhino version at http://jslint.com/rhino/jslint.js uses the same core js file. You may want to fiddle

Rhino Version up-to-date?

Tim Breitkreutz — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:44:05 GMT

Hi, thanks for the great tool and book on Javascript! I was just wondering if the rhino version of the script is currently the same as the web version. It

Re: Nested switch statements

Douglas Crockford — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:31:17 GMT

... JSlint should now correctly identify fallthrough in nested switch statements. Thank you for the report.

Nested switch statements

Chris — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:05:21 GMT

Hello, JSLint reports errors in switch statements caused by omitting a "break" statement. I recently encountered such an error that JSLint did not catch. It