I support #1 and I have had a look at Crockford's code and think it will be pretty easy to implement. I'll see if I can take care of it at the weekend. "github" at least makes the social values of this kind of thing much more agreeable :)

Cheers,
Antranig.

On 09/02/2011 20:25, Colin Clark wrote:
Hi Justin,

This seems like a pretty comprehensive list of our options. There is a part of 
me that wants to argue for #3. We know programmers coming from C-like languages 
tend to get tripped up by JavaScript's unusual scoping rules, and defining all 
variables at the top of a scope helps serve as a reminder.

On the other hand, it's a pretty cumbersome technique. It makes refactoring 
harder because code isn't grouped together as closely, and it brings the risk 
that developers will accidentally omit var statements, causing unintentional 
global leakage.

I'm people will have some strong opinions about these options. If someone is 
interested in volunteering to do #1, I'd support it. Crockford has helped us 
out a lot, so we might as well lend him a hand with this little bug in JSLint.

Thoughts?

Colin

On 2011-02-09, at 5:40 PM, Justin Obara wrote:

You may recall from a past dev meeting Michelle mentioning that jslint no 
longer has any tolerance for var's in for loops.

For instance this would no longer be acceptable.

for (var i = 0; i<  5; i++) {
        //do something five times
}

The biggest problem that this poses to us is that, jslint does not allow you to 
scan past it, and provides no means of ignoring it.

We still need to lint our code though. Here are some options we have.

1) Fork ( https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSLint ). Make the necessary 
changes and send a pull request.

2) Move the var out of the for loop and place it just above.

        var = i;
        for (i = 0; i<  5; i++) {
                // do something five times
        }

3) we could also take up the practice of moving all of the var's to the top of 
every function

---
Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
http://fluidproject.org

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