Nerdsniping: A glimpse into a stubborn mind

Post by userbinator » Tue, Apr 15, 2014, 10:43 AM UTC

pmelendez wrote: post #56

mncolinlee wrote: post #27

And this is why Javascript can be such an awful language. Leaving off a single equals has such a profound effect, often without a new coder even realizing it while reading the code. Imagine what happens to your code when someone tries to write a function for its side effects similar to the example seen in the blog post. Then releases it in production for it to break in six months with a feature change.

>"And this is why Javascript can be such an awful language." To be fair, this is breaking Javascript and that is something you could do in other languages, for instance here is a similar version for C++: http://pastebin.com/seySfpku

Post by yeahbutbut » Tue, Apr 15, 2014, 1:43 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #79

yeahbutbut wrote: post #69

And so far everyone has missed telling the poor OP how to avoid writing two equality checks... if( [80, 443].indexOf(port) !== -1 && http === false )

Are you certain that that's an improvement?

    ports = [80, 443, ...]
    if port in ports and http:
        ...

    var ports = [80, 443, ...];
    if(_(ports).contains(port) && http) {
        ...
    }