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Wednesday July 17, 2002

10:29 AM

[ #6419 ]

I was doing:

document.testForm.item = 'blah';

rather than

document.testForm.item.value = 'blah';

It didn't seem to cause an error which was useful. Only wasted an hour of my day :)

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java is not alone (Score:1)

by jmm (276)

Perl would happily accept that and just overwrite the reference to the lower level structure.
javascript pet peeves (Score:2)

by wickline (135)

1) no 'use strict' You can accidentally misspell a variable in one place and the thing won't just blow up in your face right away... Instead, it will wait until you least want it to blow up. 2) horrible weak typing implemtation - var foo can be either string or integer (cool) - foo + bar can do either concatenation or addition (hmmm) - html input fields cannot be typed - so how does it know when to turn 1+1 into 11 versus