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| bio | website | ecmazing.com |
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| location | Zagreb, Croatia | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 4 months |
| seen | May 17 at 1:16 | |
| stats | profile views | 63 |
I'm an informatics student in Zagreb, Croatia. When I grow up, I want to be a JavaScript evangelist :)
In May 2010 I took a couple of days to set up the W3 Viewer, a neat interface for viewing W3C documents: http://w3viewer.com
In January 2011 I published this neat blog viewer: http://ecmazing.com/blogs/
My profile: http://www.facebook.com/sime.vidas?sk=info
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May 14 |
accepted | “A tool to do” vs. “a tool that does” vs. “a tool for doing” |
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May 14 |
asked | “A tool to do” vs. “a tool that does” vs. “a tool for doing” |
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Mar 5 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Jan 27 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 18 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Jan 12 |
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Is it valid to omit “the”? I've provided context via a screen shot. What do you think? |
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Jan 12 |
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Is it valid to omit “the”? @simchona I've added a screen shot. The sentence in question is a note which is part of an "info box". |
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Jan 12 |
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Is it valid to omit “the”? added 151 characters in body |
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Jan 12 |
asked | Is it valid to omit “the”? |
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Oct 3 |
asked | “Silent fail” or “silent failure” |
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Sep 29 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Aug 19 |
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Is the word “throwee” acceptable? @tchrist The term "Number value" (notice the capitalization) is an official term defined in the JavaScript language standard. (Follow the link in my comment above.) In the context of JavaScript, "Number value" should be preferred over "numeric value". |
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Aug 11 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Aug 6 |
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Is the word “throwee” acceptable? Yes, there are :). The term "Number" is ambiguous since it can refer to both a primitive Number value, and a Number object (an instance of the Number "class"). It is for this reason, that the ECMAScript standard (the specification for the JavaScript programming language) defines the term "Number value". Note, though, that this applies only to the upper-cased term. The lower-cased term "number" can be used alone, and it is used as an informal synonym for the term "Number value". However, I prefer to be formal in my writing :). |
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Aug 6 |
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Is the word “throwee” acceptable? @tenfour I'm sorry if I'm being overly (and possible annoyingly) pedantic here, but it would certainly not be save to do that. The ECMAScript standard (which is the de facto JavaScript standard) clearly defines an "object" as "a member of the type Object". In the statement throw 1;, for example, 1 is interpreted as a NumericLiteral (according to the lexical grammar of the language). Such NumericLiterals are evaluated into Number values (values of the type Number). A Number value is clearly not an object. |
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Aug 6 |
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Is the word “throwee” acceptable? @Izkata That is not correct. |
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Aug 6 |
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Is the word “throwee” acceptable? @alcas Yes, I decided to use that term. :) |
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Aug 5 |
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Is the word “throwee” acceptable? "If the projectile is a Number value, then...". I like that. :P |
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Aug 5 |
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Is the word “throwee” acceptable? Yea, based on the responses here, I decided to not use "throwee". I think I'll use the terms "thrown value" or "exception value" in the future. (E.g. "If the thrown value is a Number value,...", or just "If a Number value is thrown, ...".) |
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Aug 5 |
accepted | Is the word “throwee” acceptable? |
