[OpenLayers-Dev] {} or new Object()

Paul Spencer pspencer at dmsolutions.ca
Tue Jul 24 16:29:09 EDT 2007


trying again (email on the road sucks) ... I vote for {} because it  
saves me 12 characters of typing :)

Paul

On 24-Jul-07, at 4:24 PM, Jeff Yutzler wrote:

> I vote for {} and [] rather than new Object() and new Array().
> They are completely equivalent so I see no reason not to use the  
> shorter one.
>
> dev-request at openlayers.org wrote:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:43:09 -0500
>> From: "Erik Uzureau" <erik.uzureau at metacarta.com>
>> Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] {} or new Object()
>> To: "dev at openlayers" <dev at openlayers.org>
>> Message-ID:
>> 	<6ae3fb590707241243m4f03d543x26cc524fd4a0197d at mail.gmail.com>
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>>
>> Paul has just gone vocal with his preference for using {} instead of
>> "new Object()" for the instantantiation of a new object.
>>
>> We do not currently have any policy for this. Do people feel strongly
>> one way or the other?
>>
>> Obviously it's not a big issue, but if there is broad support for
>> doing it one way or the other, we might as well attempt to  
>> standardize
>> a bit.
>>
>> Erik
>>   <jeff.yutzler.vcf>
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