Checking with the community about a jshint option that came up in the
channel on Friday - do we agree that the prohibition against the bitwise
operators (which I believe was simply inherited into jshint from the
Crockford days) is irrational?
Their annotation simply reads
http://jshint.com/docs/options/#bitwise
"This option prohibits the use of bitwise operators such as ^ (XOR), |
(OR) and others. Bitwise operators are very rare in JavaScript programs
and quite often & is simply a mistyped &&."
IMO just because they are "rare" doesn't mean that they are not to be
recommended - also the XOR operator seems indispensable without which we
would write monstrosities such as if (!!a !== !!b).
Are we ok to just turn off this option in our linting?
Cheers,
a
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