Without quotes of course. Sent from my smartphone. On Aug 27, 2011 10:33 PM, "Xavier MONTILLET" <[email protected]> wrote: > What about property name in object litteral? > > Sent from my smartphone. > On Aug 27, 2011 10:28 PM, "Nathan Sweet" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>Did ES5 make it valid or was it valid in ES3? >> The short answer is that it's always been valid. >> >> The long answer: A propertyName is simply a sequence of characters that > refers to the property of an object, and has fewer rules around what is > valid, than an identifier sequence. The way in which that property is > accessed, via those sequence of characters is what matters. If a property is > always accessed via bracket-notation, then you needn't really worry about > what sequence of characters composes the propertyName. If you are using > dot-notation then, unfortunately, you are utilizing "identifier" syntax to > access the property of the object. There are a few things that have to > follow "identifier" syntax in JavaScript, a variable declaration, a function > declaration, and the dot-notation (I don't think there are others, but I may > be mistaken). Theoretically, though not realistically, you could refactor > most JS code to avoid identifiers altogether. You could use bracket-notation > to create anything (ie variable replacement) you needed, and you could avoid > function declarations, etc. For more reading on bracket-notation, and > propertyNames syntax see section 11.5-11.6 of ECMA-262 3rd edition, for more > on identifier syntax see 7.5-7.6 ibid. >> >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Xavier MONTILLET < > [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> But it looses all the interest of having a nice name for your method. >>> >>> Sent from my smartphone. >>> >>> On Aug 27, 2011 9:50 PM, "Nathan Sweet" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>Does work in all implementations? >>> > Although, >>> > o['delete'] = true; >>> > is perfectly valid, and will work in all browsers. >>> > >>> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Nathan Sweet <[email protected] >>wrote: >>> > >>> >> >>Does work in all implementations? >>> >> Sorry, Peter's right, it is invalid, but the point still stands about > the >>> >> nature of JSLint. >>> >> >>> >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Nathan Sweet < [email protected] >>wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> >>And why do jslint and jshint cry? Just a bug? >>> >>> JS lint is quite opinionated, and wants to direct you towards best >>> >>> practices. JSLint will tell you not to do things that are perfectly > valid. >>> >>> This general opinionated nature is a good thing, because it will, > overall, >>> >>> make you a better JavaScripter, but there are times when it > can/should be >>> >>> ignored. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Xavier MONTILLET < >>> >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Does work in all implementations? >>> >>>> >>> >>>> And why do jslint and jshint cry? Just a bug? >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Sent from my smartphone. >>> >>>> On Aug 27, 2011 9:20 PM, "Peter van der Zee" <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> >>>> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:05 PM, xavierm02 < > [email protected]> >>> >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> >> Hi, >>> >>>> >> I was wondering when it was allowed to use reserved words. Let's > say >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> > You can use reserved words as property names of objects. You > cannot >>> >>>> > use them as variable names. Note that the property names of the > object >>> >>>> > literal are not "variables". So in your example: >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> > var o = { >>> >>>> > delete: true >>> >>>> > }; >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> > `o` is a variable and `delete` is a property name. >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> > - peter >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> > -- >>> >>>> > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman > list: >>> >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: >>> >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> >>>> > [email protected] >>> >>>> >>> >>>> -- >>> >>>> To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman > list: >>> >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>>> >>> >>>> To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: >>> >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>>> >>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> >>>> [email protected] >>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>> > >>> > -- >>> > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> > >>> > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> > >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> > [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>> To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]
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