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Re: jslint and typeof

From "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: jslint and typeof
Date 2013-05-20 13:40 +0300
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <kncubd$i57$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <kr2dnRlKLtGEaQTMnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d@westnet.com.au>

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2013-05-20 12:59, Andrew Poulos wrote:

> if (typeof options.actor !== "undefined") {
[...]
> and jslint complains of the first line that
>
> "Unexpected 'typeof'. Use '===' to compare directly with undefined."
>
> but the complaint makes little sense to me.

Since the only value of type "undefined" is the one denoted by the 
variable undefined, the test

typeof options.actor !== "undefined"

is unnecessary complicated, since you can use

options.action !== undefined

instead.

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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jslint and typeof Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-20 19:59 +1000
  Re: jslint and typeof "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-05-20 13:40 +0300
    Re: jslint and typeof Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-05-20 13:34 +0200
      Re: jslint and typeof Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-20 14:23 +0200
        Re: jslint and typeof Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2013-05-26 17:40 +0200
  Re: jslint and typeof Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-05-20 13:48 +0200
  Re: jslint and typeof Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-05-20 14:44 +0200
    Re: jslint and typeof Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-20 23:17 +1000

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