Comments on: Self Printing JavaScript Literals http://ajaxian.com/archives/self-printing-javascript-literals Cleaning up the web with Ajax Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:10:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andy Kant http://ajaxian.com/archives/self-printing-javascript-literals/comment-page-1#comment-261449 Andy Kant Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:13:44 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3341#comment-261449 @Kris I don't think that they're saying that inspection isn't valuable for debugging, I think that it is indispensable, but this particular technique doesn't really gain you much of anything since modern debuggers (like Firebug) have that feature baked in. There are debuggers for IE and other browsers that provide similar abilities. If you *really* need this ability and don't have a debugger installed, a property dump of the object would be more useful than just a name. @Kris
I don’t think that they’re saying that inspection isn’t valuable for debugging, I think that it is indispensable, but this particular technique doesn’t really gain you much of anything since modern debuggers (like Firebug) have that feature baked in. There are debuggers for IE and other browsers that provide similar abilities. If you *really* need this ability and don’t have a debugger installed, a property dump of the object would be more useful than just a name.

]]> By: Kris Kowal http://ajaxian.com/archives/self-printing-javascript-literals/comment-page-1#comment-261443 Kris Kowal Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:56:01 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3341#comment-261443 Alternately, you could implement Python's polymorphic |repr| or Ruby's |inspect|. Firebug has good object inspection if you log non-strings (with a browsable object inspector, but I don't believe it's overridable. I disagree with Urandom and Lon42; inspection is very valuable for debugging and totally worth the bother to copytheft. Alternately, you could implement Python’s polymorphic |repr| or Ruby’s |inspect|. Firebug has good object inspection if you log non-strings (with a browsable object inspector, but I don’t believe it’s overridable. I disagree with Urandom and Lon42; inspection is very valuable for debugging and totally worth the bother to copytheft.

]]> By: bollywood http://ajaxian.com/archives/self-printing-javascript-literals/comment-page-1#comment-261438 bollywood Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:14:20 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3341#comment-261438 Functional JavaScript seems like a python language on shell. Functional JavaScript seems like a python language on shell.

]]> By: Jordan http://ajaxian.com/archives/self-printing-javascript-literals/comment-page-1#comment-261436 Jordan Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:46:15 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3341#comment-261436 I must say I agree with Urandom. I must say I agree with Urandom.

]]> By: Lon42 http://ajaxian.com/archives/self-printing-javascript-literals/comment-page-1#comment-261435 Lon42 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:06:28 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3341#comment-261435 I think in FF you can use whatever.source to prettyprint anything. I think in FF you can use whatever.source to prettyprint anything.

]]> By: urandom http://ajaxian.com/archives/self-printing-javascript-literals/comment-page-1#comment-261433 urandom Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:47:15 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=3341#comment-261433 "Are you ever sick of seeing Object get printed out when you try to output a variable to your console." I can't say that I have. And I can't even justify all this work just for the sake of debugging. “Are you ever sick of seeing Object get printed out when you try to output a variable to your console.”

I can’t say that I have. And I can’t even justify all this work just for the sake of debugging.

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