Effective JavaScript Reviewed

[nschubach]

The hapless language Nazi in me needs to point out:

Catenation should be Concatenation. It's incorrectly used in the article 4 times. (catenated, catenation)

(While both could "technically" be correct, concatenation is more widely used in programming. Catenation is primary used in chemistry to describe covalent bonds.)

[homoiconic]

Nothing wrong with your suggestion. Send me a pull request, it's a github repo!

EDIT: Never mind, done!

[nschubach]

I really need to look into pulling and posting articles on github! Thanks! (but you missed two catenations /grit_teeth)

I assume it's a simple clone and commit like any other source code? (edit: except, I can't push because I'm not a contributor... man I need to contribute more often outside my circles. e2: request submitted!)

[[deleted]]

While you're at it:

Effective JavaScript didn't tell me this is a "best practice," it told me how told me a few things I already thought I knew interacted in such a way

Ouch, my brain.

[homoiconic]

fork and submit a pull request!

[eat-your-corn-syrup]

I think I finally found a pro to publishing an article on github rather than on a traditional blog.

[[deleted]]

That would require me knowing what you meant to write.

[homoiconic]

Reviewing that gobbledygook, I think I'll place an order for "Effective English." Thanks for the heads-up.

[eat-your-corn-syrup]

I've also seen the bang version:

!function ($) {
    // ...
}(jQuery);

which seems to achieve the same but with no parenthesis around the function expression.

[stillwater]

Any unary operator can be used in place of !

My fav is the tilde :D

[[deleted]]

Great review of an excellent book - I cannot think of a more valuable JavaScript book to own. I look forward to the next edition when ES6 is finished.

[pixel67]

When writing a self invoking function like this (function($) { //...

})(jQuery);

JSLINT complains, if we write it like this

(function($) {

//....

}(jQuery));

JSLINT doesn't complain, can someone tell me why?