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From: Frobernik <nospam@nospam.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Function arguments vs. local variables
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:01:15 +0000
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On 19/11/2011 15:05, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
 > Frobernik wrote:
 >>>> findPos({name:'df', colour:'green'})
 >>>
 >>> We have been over this.
 >>
 >> We have?
 >
 > Yes.  We, the previous subscribers of this newsgroup, have.  You 
should read
 > a fair amount of past discussions before you post to a newsgroup:
 >
 > <http://jibbering.com/faq/notes/posting>

Apologies but I (like a lot of others) haven't had the time to read 
through the entire back history of this newsgroup from 1995/6-2011 let 
alone find the specific thread, post or author to which you're referring

>>>> function findPos(obj, name, colour, b, c) {
 >>>> <snip>
>>>> }
>>>> findPos({name:'df', colour:'green'})
>>
>> […]
>> In an implementation of similar heuristics, Eclipse JSDT allows function
>> arguments and variables to be displayed differently.  For example, I have
>> set it up so that it would display argument declarations and references in
>> bluish italic characters; the identifier in variable declarations in
>> regular style, but underlined; and local variable references in
>> normal-colored italic characters.  If I were to use your approach, I could
>> not tell at a glance if an identifier was an argument or a local variable
>                                             ^ used as
>> name.  I could be ending up assigning to arguments, inadvertently altering
>> the program flow after that assignment.  […]

I use IntelliJ I *don't* use Eclipse - the last time I did it crashed 
wiping an entire two days work

Just cause you don't use it doesn't mean to say its doesn't exist. I 
don't like the pattern either but the codes smaller