Comments on: For your consideration: $type methods http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/ Making stuff work on the other side of the request. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:00:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aaron N. http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-31743 Aaron N. Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:34:44 +0000 http://www.clientcide.com/?p=728#comment-31743 @thomas, While I don't mind using $ methods (I have my own $E and $G methods, for instance) I don't like to let these things get away from me... @thomas, While I don’t mind using $ methods (I have my own $E and $G methods, for instance) I don’t like to let these things get away from me…

]]> By: Aaron N. http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-31742 Aaron N. Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:33:41 +0000 http://www.clientcide.com/?p=728#comment-31742 @harald, @jan, Yeah, I know, but there is no, for instance, Collection.type($$('a')). It only applies to natives. Again, this was something I was contemplating but decided against actually using... @harald, @jan, Yeah, I know, but there is no, for instance, Collection.type($$(‘a’)). It only applies to natives. Again, this was something I was contemplating but decided against actually using…

]]> By: Jan Kassens http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-31741 Jan Kassens Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:42:53 +0000 http://www.clientcide.com/?p=728#comment-31741 Note, that there's also String.type('foo'), Number.type() etc. included in MooTools. Note, that there’s also String.type(‘foo’), Number.type() etc. included in MooTools.

]]> By: Thomas Allmer http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-31740 Thomas Allmer Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:28:17 +0000 http://www.clientcide.com/?p=728#comment-31740 I don't really like this as for ME it seems to be harder to find out what you are doing... $type('foo') == 'string' => is completely clear for ME that you are trying to find out if it is a string... $type.string(('foo')) => here I am not really sure I have to think about it (what does it return?, why $type.string), and it makes the code harder to read for ME. If you just want to save some chars, how about creating some aliases like $isString('foo') => completely clear what you are doing and that is will return just true/false this is just MY personal opinion about that, so I won't use it, but if it helps you it's surely ok... :p I don’t really like this as for ME it seems to be harder to find out what you are doing…
$type(‘foo’) == ’string’ => is completely clear for ME that you are trying to find out if it is a string…

$type.string((‘foo’)) => here I am not really sure I have to think about it (what does it return?, why $type.string), and it makes the code harder to read for ME.

If you just want to save some chars, how about creating some aliases like
$isString(‘foo’) => completely clear what you are doing and that is will return just true/false

this is just MY personal opinion about that, so I won’t use it, but if it helps you it’s surely ok… :p

]]> By: Harald Kirschner http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-31739 Harald Kirschner Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:18:05 +0000 http://www.clientcide.com/?p=728#comment-31739 Not sure if you knew Aaron, but String.type('hello') or Number.type(1) already works (same for every other native object). Not sure if you knew Aaron, but String.type(‘hello’) or Number.type(1) already works (same for every other native object).

]]> By: Rey Bango http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-31736 Rey Bango Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:52:33 +0000 http://www.clientcide.com/?p=728#comment-31736 Comment #3 was me but the OpenID profile didn't get updated. :P Comment #3 was me but the OpenID profile didn’t get updated. :P

]]> By: emailtoid.net/i/de2372b5/ http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-31735 emailtoid.net/i/de2372b5/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:50:37 +0000 http://www.clientcide.com/?p=728#comment-31735 That's a cool little trick Aaron! That’s a cool little trick Aaron!

]]> By: Aaron N. http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-31734 Aaron N. Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:28:26 +0000 http://www.clientcide.com/?p=728#comment-31734 MooTools makes use of object oriented practices through it's class inheritance. It has, however, a handful of convenience methods that allow you to accomplish simple tasks that don't really need any sort of inheritance scheme. <em>$type</em>, <em>$defined</em>, etc. are just there to make writing code easier. By adding a method like the one I have here for each type to see if the object is a match would just me an added convenience, though as I state above, not much of one. MooTools makes use of object oriented practices through it’s class inheritance. It has, however, a handful of convenience methods that allow you to accomplish simple tasks that don’t really need any sort of inheritance scheme. $type, $defined, etc. are just there to make writing code easier. By adding a method like the one I have here for each type to see if the object is a match would just me an added convenience, though as I state above, not much of one.

]]> By: emehrkay http://www.clientcide.com/3rd-party-libraries/for-your-consideration-type-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-31733 emehrkay Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:08:09 +0000 http://www.clientcide.com/?p=728#comment-31733 Would creating a host of is[Type] functions, like PHP, break the JS OO methodology? Would creating a host of is[Type] functions, like PHP, break the JS OO methodology?

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