Just a little fun for today…
MooTools, a common Javascript framework, is responsible for extending an array in Javascript. It adds a number of useful features to each array that is created.
However, this can be a problem. When creating a third-party javascript widget, I created an array of properties that needed to be iterated through. I obviously cannot depend on a specific Javascript framework to be present… so I did something like this:
for (x in myArray) {
doSomethingWith(myArray[x]);
}
Well, since each array - on creation - has the methods from the prototype being extended, I now have extra items in my array. This was causing an error because my function was not expecting a function to be passed in, only a string.
So that’s why this is bad. So don’t do that in Javascript, ok? Thanks! :)