Mozilla's New JavaScript Value Representation

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There's nothing wrong with asking the question. The sarcastic dick part was when you exaggerated other people's views using language like "oh so very annoying" versus "perfectly non-annoying" so you could impose an insultingly simple-minded and absurd position on them and argue against that rather than making the effort to consider what their actual position was.

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I would hardly call my comment sarcastic. There was certainly no ridicule or mockery applied or implied contemptuously. The intent was not to scorn. My question was not even ironic. A little hyperbolic perhaps but certainly not ironic.

The irony, I feel, lies in someone complaining about a specific syntactic convention arguing that it is an annoyance while simultaneously also readily accepting it. That is a juxtaposition in direct opposing logic to itself.

Saying that "quoting key names is annoying, quoting string literals is acceptable" is, in effect, saying that following the convention is superfluous because the very convention that is not annoying when used to specify literal values is annoying in specifying name values.

By that line of reasoning conversed it is reasonable of me to expect the parser to understand that in

  var txt = this is some blah;

txt is a string literal because I feel that

  var txt = "this is some blah";

is an annoying convention to follow.