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Re: object giving errors

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On 12/12/2019 8:11 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Andrew Poulos wrote:
> 
>> Why is it that when I do this
>>
>> function pos() {
>>     return { "top": 10, "left": l20 };
>> }
>>
>> or this
>>
>> function pos() {
>>     let o = { "top": 10, "left": l20 };
>>     return o;
>> }
>>
>> I get "Uncaught ReferenceError: l20 is not defined".
>>
>> But when I do it like this
>>
>> function pos() {
>>     let o = {};
>>     o.top = 10;
>>     o.left = 120;
>>     return o;
>> }
>>
>> I get no errors?
> 
> The first code snippet contains a reference to the variable with identifier
> (in words) “‘U+006C Latin Small Letter L’, followed by ‘U+0032 Digit Two’,
> followed by ‘U+0030 Digit Zero’”; the second one contains the decimal
> numeric literal (in words) “one hundred twenty” (i.e. “U+0031 Digit One”,
> followed by “U+0032 Digit Two”, followed by “U+0030 Digit Zero”).
> 
> Using an *unambiguous* *monospace* font like “DejaVu Sans Mono” (free
> software), “Bitstream Vera Mono” (Open Source) or “Consolas” (proprietary;
> de Groot/Microsoft), and an editor supporting code completion, like
> Atom(.io), and a code checker like ESLint(.org), for software development,
> helps to avoid such problems.

You guys saw the issue straight-away but I was stumped. I'll update my 
fonts accordingly.

Andrew Poulos

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object giving errors Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2019-12-12 19:20 +1100
  Re: object giving errors Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-12-12 00:31 -0800
    Re: object giving errors Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2019-12-12 20:36 +1100
  Re: object giving errors Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2019-12-12 10:11 +0100
    Re: object giving errors Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2019-12-12 20:38 +1100
      Re: object giving errors Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-12-12 02:21 -0800
  Re: object giving errors "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-12-14 17:24 +0100

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