Writing Eloquent JavaScript Without CoffeeScript
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Writing Eloquent JavaScript Without CoffeeScript
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Re: Writing Eloquent JavaScript Without CoffeeScript
#2I guess from MPOV, "eloquent" formatting shouldn't change based on the size of the content... ie the difference between standard indenting and tab-aligning commas vertically. There's nothing eloquent about stepping through a dozen lines of code, tabbing each out, because a value was added that's a little longer than the rest..
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#3most of that made me feel sick
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#4This page shows no content on kindle webbrowser.
Re: Writing Eloquent JavaScript Without CoffeeScript
#5Using the ternary operator is more "eloquent" than conditionals? That's true iff "eloquent" means terse in terms of number of characters, but I find if(...){} much more readable.
Re: Writing Eloquent JavaScript Without CoffeeScript
#6most of that made me feel sick
Yeah, it was sort of short and newbie-friendly, but it probably helped some people. I wish that it would have gone into more detail to explain how each of those tricks works so readers could learn why those operators work the way they do. For example, he called using a logical "OR" a "var = var || value way of setting variables."
He should have gone into more detail to explain how ||'s work, how you can have more than just 1 of them, the order in which they are evaluated if you do have more than 1, etc.
Re: Writing Eloquent JavaScript Without CoffeeScript
#7As someone who writes JS every day, ignoring the fact that I think most of these paradigms are terribly ugly (though the comma placement is acceptable for cleaner diffs), I expected this post to be about actually getting things done eloquently without CoffeeScript. What I got was a blog post about how ternary operators can be written on multiple lines.
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#8This is satire, right? ... right? Please?
Re: Writing Eloquent JavaScript Without CoffeeScript
#9I don't want to sound like an asshole and I'm saying nothing about the author, but in my personal experience I found lining up variables or =s was something I worried about when I first started programming.
Now my mind's eye just totally skips variable declaration when visually code parsing, variable declaration is meaningless drivel that exists only to stop typos (a good purpose).
I had an opinion on the layout of them back then because I wasn't a good enough programmer yet to have an opinion on anything else, I had opinions on things that didn't matter because those were the only things I actually understood well.
Also, again in my personal experience, it's much better to declare them just before you use them for future maintenance, having 4 or 5 declarations at the same time is something I do so rarely now. If you start faffing around laying them out, you're going to be tempted to put them all together.
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#10This page shows no content on kindle webbrowser.
It took my browser 20 seconds to render the text. I've no idea why he would load static content dynamically.