Comments on: 4 Ways JavaScript Has Changed the Way I Code

By: makemoniesonline

makemoniesonline — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:10:49 +0000

“I probably thought that the extra whitespace made the code easier to read. Now I’m just annoyed with beginning braces having their own line. Seems like a waste of space.”

JavaScript FTL.

Putting the brace on the same line is retarded and makes code unreadable.

By: Tim Wickstrom

Tim Wickstrom — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:56:42 +0000

Dude you crack me up! Sounds like we have a very similar story in how we learned programming, and have come to many of the same conclusions!

in ref to: I Require Frameworks (Screw You Vanilla PHP!), could not agree more!

I am located just south of you in Rockford IL. We should get a regional MooTools/PHP/AJAX group going.

Hit me up sometime if that sound of interest to you.

By: lossendae

lossendae — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:29:55 +0000

I personnaly don’t use so much undescore with PHP anymore. I like CamelCase.

I love ExtJS :)

I try to conform to this:
http://developer.fellowshipone.com/patterns/code.php

By: vladimir prieto

vladimir prieto — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:40:47 +0000

“I Want Everything to be an Object”

that’s way a began to love ruby (rails)!

;)

By: Kirill

Kirill — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:09:46 +0000

Frameworks (and I mean MooTools!!). It is the reason I started using JS. Wihtout MooTools I wouldn’t even bother starting using JS in my applications because original JS is so painful to use.

By: WouterToering

WouterToering — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:10:12 +0000

@Hudson: Yes, Wikipedia is a bad reference haha, just saying :P.

I am not really familiar with the C languages (shame), but as C noob I consider C way more OOP than PHP, looking at the basic examples. I learned (and I believe almost everybody else too) PHP not by using Classes, but just by the basics of echo and include.

And JavaScript, hmmz, I thought JavaScript doesn’t even have official Class support? And I never noticed anything about strictness of brackets in JavaScript, maybe I just use an awesome indention style haha.

Anyway, I still don’t believe PHP is Object Oriented, in my opinion it’s kind a the “screw around” language, where you can try things on many different ways, getting the same result, without errors. But that’s just my opinion ;).

By: @Hudson

@Hudson — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:58:26 +0000

@WouterToering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php — object oriented.
I know wikipedia is bad argument. But anyway how about C++? is it object-oriented or not? You can write it like as procedural language. Same goes with javascript. Actually I consider PHP more traditional OOP than javascript. JavaScript objects are associative arrays.

There is lots of good things in JavaScript and I recommend you all to watch this and 4 other videos as well:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs-2

JavaScript is also more strict about place of brackets than PHP.

@Dean: Yea :)

By: Crookes

Crookes — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:41:13 +0000

Good stuff.

I find whitespace a pain usually, in any language.

Chris

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:45:07 +0000

Placing braces on the same line is the preferred style for most languages (e.g., C). Personally, I prefer no braces .. yay Python and Lua!

By: Flxa

Flxa — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:38:36 +0000

Braces on the same line, I think of them like colons in plain English.
List heading:
item 1
item 2

function() {
// business
// more business
}

but not

List heading
:
item 1
item 2

function()
{
// business
}

if the function is short then the whole thing can easily be on the same line
if($this_happened){/*do this simple thing*/}

kind of like

Question: answer

Probably not the best explanation but what I’m getting at is that the first brace should never need it’s own line and if the function is big enough then the last one should definitely have it’s own line.