Re: es-discuss Digest, Vol 76, Issue 36

2013-06-07 Thread Erik Reppen
From the 39-year-old curmudgeons-before-their-time camp, I'd like to point out that comments would be bad for two reasons: 1. They're a sure sign somebody's gone and constructed something to fit implementation/consumption of data rather than describe it which ultimately makes modifying any system

Re: Consistency in The Negative Result Values Through Expansion of null's Role

2012-08-17 Thread Erik Reppen
Well, I was thinking !== null for most tests I guess but I could see potential for typeof in the simpler methods that return other stuff. So by this standard would: 'squirrel'.match(/wombat/); be better if it returned an empty array rather than null? If that's the case, then I guess I wanted to

Re: Consistency in The Negative Result Values Through Expansion of null's Role

2012-08-17 Thread Erik Reppen
replies. It definitely gave me some food for thought and new targets to hit on the self-improvement list. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.org wrote: Erik Reppen wrote: Well, I was thinking !== null for most tests I guess but I could see potential for typeof

Re: Consistency in The Negative Result Values Through Expansion of null's Role

2012-08-17 Thread Erik Reppen
in the context of that function and then swap the original method back in before it interfered with other people's code. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.org wrote: Erik Reppen wrote: myPocketD( function(){ //altered proto methods swapped before this func arg

Re: Consistency in The Negative Result Values Through Expansion of null's Role

2012-08-16 Thread Erik Reppen
, Rick Waldron waldron.r...@gmail.comwrote: On Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Andreas Rossberg wrote: On 16 August 2012 00:35, Rick Waldron waldron.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Erik Reppen erik.rep...@gmail.com wrote: This topic has probably been beaten

Re: Consistency in The Negative Result Values Through Expansion of null's Role

2012-08-16 Thread Erik Reppen
wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Erik Reppen erik.rep...@gmail.com wrote: This topic has probably been beaten to death years before I was even aware of es-discuss but it continues to get mentioned occasionally as a point of pain so I thought I'd see if I couldn't attempt to hatch

Consistency in The Negative Result Values Through Expansion of null's Role

2012-08-15 Thread Erik Reppen
This topic has probably been beaten to death years before I was even aware of es-discuss but it continues to get mentioned occasionally as a point of pain so I thought I'd see if I couldn't attempt to hatch a conversation and maybe understand the design concerns better than I likely do now.