Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jukka K. Korpela" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Programming style question Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:02:55 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <1538954.egObkdgl4n@PointedEars.de> <0qGdnW4DceWJZeLNnZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d@earthlink.com> <3469358.shaKaQI8qd@PointedEars.de> <3615430.ttrsPfDsFo@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9e0ae8574c58208bf47738e1c9986fe4"; logging-data="10114"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+NVJu5P2D/Jh+Y8FBymiA+" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <3615430.ttrsPfDsFo@PointedEars.de> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 121024-0, 24.10.2012), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:phHBrOMnuADxAf+ViRHhB9vIdxg= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:16834 2012-10-24 20:57, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > >> 2012-10-24 3:15, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >>> AISB, all variables do have a type. >> >> The resident troll’s attempt at confusing people was not this time >> accompanied with his usual babbling “there is no JavaScript” and with >> references to the ECMAScript standard. No wonder, since he knows quite >> well that the standard says nothing about the type of a variable. > > Your inability to read in context (in addition to your ongoing anti-social > behavior) is your problem alone. Variables have values; values are > associated with a type. The ECMAScript Language Specification, too, is very > clear about that, particularly in section 8 of the 5.1 Edition. And yes, I > do know the Specification and its implementations quite well; eventually I > wrote a bachelor's thesis about them. It almost looks like the resident troll has been automated. The comment looks like boilerplate text, with some parameterized insults, sent by a bot with no regard to content. After all, the troll posting says that variables have values and values have types, without even trying to claim (any more) that variables have types. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/