Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Christoph Becker Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Programming style question Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:00:50 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <722e889us0ep0mra233907giq2nnolqhge@4ax.com> <3335047.320Uf1SXUN@PointedEars.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rG3SiRXiUu2UmBj4UCjDcA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:16847 Stefan Weiss wrote: > I've been waiting for this... It seems that every time I post code to > this group, I get a reply filled with pedantic nitpicks and irrelevant > criticism from you. I do enjoy constructive feedback, but all this > disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing is a waste of everyone's time. > Especially when you intentionally misinterpret short code examples as > something they were never meant to be. I wouldn't call Thomas' comments pedantic, but rather meticulous (I hope I understand the finer details of the English language here; in German it would be "pedantisch" vs. "akribisch"). And I assume, that Thomas' comments are not meant to demonstrate that his knowledge of ECMAScript is superior to others (what would IMHO be illogical), but merely to help to avoid mistakes that he (?) and others have already made. And, being a novice regarding web development, I quite appreciate this kind of support--one might not get that in other places for free. About your code samples: I've found them to be the most useful ones offered in this thread. Most others seemed to have the only purpose to show some wizardry that's possible--your's were quite practical uses of the || and && operators (even if they /might/ have some minor flaws). Thanks for conveying. -- Christoph M. Becker