That makes sense.. and as you say, it is well established in JS. I don't 
see any other sane way of accomplishing that. It works for my use case, 
I'll make sure it's obvious in the README as well. Thanks.

On Saturday, December 29, 2012 7:13:54 PM UTC-6, Bradley Meck wrote:
>
> If you are using a non-standard (harmony) expectation in your library you 
> should test and bail on an environment that does not supply the interfaces 
> expected. I think throwing on missing expectations is one solution the 
> other is to require a shim if the expectation is not present. Both are 
> pretty de-facto in JS. Putting this into package.json etc would mean that 
> you are requiring CLI switches that are non-standard to be in place. 
> Shimming and throwing are perfectly valid for this case.
>
> I see this as little difference from requiring a peer module or a module 
> that expects a non-present global variable (lots of tests suites bootstrap 
> in globals, errors are usually but not always obvious due to this).
>

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