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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Reference var in (function(){})()
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 11:38:50 +0200
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> On 1/08/2017 8:40 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Andrew Poulos wrote:
>>> There's some code that looks like
>>>
>>> var con = (function() {
>>>     var opt0 = {},
>>>         opt1 = {},
>>>         opt2 = {},
>>>         opt3 = {},
>>>         ...
>> 
>> Who is doing such nonsense?
> 
> It happens gradually. First, there's just one opt(ion). A few weeks
> later the designer changes the design and so pt1 gets added. And so on...
> 
> A theorist told me years ago to always build things with the
> understanding that the number of items a design requires can change.
> Some of the people I work follow instructions explicitly and if it says
> "there's one item" then they build accordingly.

As a rule of thumb, I start using arrays when there is more then one item of 
a kind.

> Ok, I did as you and Evertjan suggested and the change was easy and any
> increase in the number of opts will now be painless.

See also my supplementary posting.

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