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| Date | 2012-10-12 20:32 +0100 |
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| From | Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: What's a good Javascript book? |
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John G Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 at 10:39:59, in comp.lang.javascript, Scott Sauyet
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> I did find it archived at
>>
>> <https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/
>> e798d5c2bf041b0b>
>>
>> I really didn't see anything in your list that seemed likely to be
>> considered a lie. The only comment that you made there that might
>> possibly be construed as a belief that he was lying was this:
>>
>>
>> | 3 He says that a property's value cannot be 'undefined'. This is
>> | untrue. (p20)
>>
>> Even here, I would have taken it to mean that he was mistaken and not
>> that he was lying.
>>
>> Odd.
>
> 1) His is the *only* good coding style.
I've met a lot of people who, completely honestly and sincerely, believe
their preferred style is the only good coding style in some language.
Perhaps he is one of those people, and is expressing what he believes.
> 2) else is *always* followed by { ... } .
> 3) He says that { ... } is not a statement.
> 4) He says, or implies by banning it, that there is never a good reason
> to call a constructor as an ordinary function.
>
Depending on the context and exactly what he wrote, he may be at least
half right about #3.
According to the grammar in
http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/, Statement can be
expanded to Block, so some blocks are statements. On the other hand,
there are contexts which require Block rather than Statement, for
example in a TryStatement. A block that appears where a statement is not
permitted cannot be a statement.
Following an else is not one of those contexts, so #2 is wrong.
Patricia
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