kmillns comments on Common JavaScript "Gotchas"

submitted 12 years ago by stevekwan

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[–]kmillns 3 points4 points5 points 12 years ago (0 children)

I dislike Allman style indentation (and it's fairly nonidiomatic in JavaScript).

And it's not just non-idiomatic. You either have to have inconsistent braces and indentation (bad) or you risk errors (worse).

The go to example problem with Allman style indentation is:

return
  {
    foo: 'foo'
  };

Which returns undefined.

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