[Info-vax] [OT] The wonders of Javascript...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-03-03, hb <end.of at inter.net> wrote:
> On 03/03/2015 03:02 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> BTW, and IMHO, Javascript_not_  throwing an error when you reference a
>> non-existent property in a maths operation (but instead silently setting
>> the LHS of the assignment to a NaN) is absolutely insane. There is no
>> reason why something like that would ever be valid code.
>
> Maybe I already said it, I use Javascript, that's all. So I don't want 
> to argue, but that's the way Javascript works.

Don't worry hb, I most certainly was _not_ arguing with you :-) as I
was just making an observation about Javascript.

Now I know Javascript a lot better than I did a few months ago, I've
found some of the language design decisions to be rather, erm,
"interesting". :-)

Simon.

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