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Re: Cheap runtime asserts

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On 12/4/2012 10:00 PM, glathoud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> To check argument types in functions that are used in many different
> places, I have been using this:
>
> function someCoreFunction( domnode, text ) {
>
>      // "Cheap runtime assert": fails when `domnode` is not a DOM node.
>      domnode.childNodes.a;
...

One problem I have with this is that childNodes seems like a good name
for the children of a node in any tree with an arbitrary fan-out,
regardless of whether it has anything to do with DOM. What advantage do
you see to this compared to checking the type?

Patricia

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Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-04 22:00 -0800
  Re: Cheap runtime asserts Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-12-05 20:18 +0100
    Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-06 11:19 -0800
      Re: Cheap runtime asserts Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-12-06 23:41 +0100
  Re: Cheap runtime asserts Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-12-05 12:00 -0800
    Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-06 11:34 -0800
  Re: Cheap runtime asserts JJ <jaejunks@glegooilma-swapit.com> - 2012-12-06 07:29 +0000
    Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-06 11:40 -0800
      Re: Cheap runtime asserts JJ <jaejunks@glegooilma-swapit.com> - 2012-12-07 12:03 +0000
        Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-10 23:46 -0800
  Re: Cheap runtime asserts Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 23:00 +0100
    Re: Cheap runtime asserts glathoud <glathoud@yahoo.fr> - 2012-12-11 00:07 -0800

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