On 03/ 8/11 03:29 PM, Colin Clark wrote: > Hi Antranig, > > It's unfortunate that Douglas Crockford rejected our pull request for > tolerating the "for (var x in ...)" construct in JSLint, and really awesome > that you were able to fork it and add the feature yourself. > > We need to be careful, though, with this new power to change the rules of our > code style guidelines. One of the main reasons that JSLint has become so > controversial recently is because it blurs the distinction between idioms > that actively reduce the likelihood of errors, and mere stylistic preference. > > When we get into the realm of code formatting and stylistic preference, we > run the risk of bike shed arguments. Our approach to this issue has always > been to pick someone else's style rules--someone from outside the community. > It removes contention and personal feelings from code reviews, shifting the > blame away from any individual in the community. > > As the maintainer of our JSLint fork, you've now got a new and unprecedented > power. We should try to only use it for stylistic issues we can find > community-wide consensus on, not for personal taste.
Is there consensus as to which jslint should be used? Crockford's is here: http://swarm.fluidproject.org/jslint Antranig's fork is here: http://swarm.fluidproject.org/JSLint Once a decision is made, one or the other can be shutdown or moved respectively. Cheers, Jamon _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
