I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Pretending it's not... I'm a professional developer who has used Javascript on and off since it was first released (though it's not my primary language by any means). I wouldn't use a hack like that, because I think it's awkward and likely to cause confusion or problems farther down the line.
There are prefectly valid ways to do things that don't sacrifice readability; when someone tries to refactor it out later on because it seemingly does nothing, they'll be at fault for introducing a bug. I say the original author introduced the bug, and would pick that up in a code review.
I am agreed with your improvement expect for adding predicate to user class.
This will break Single Reponsability principle.
I think it's better to make a class for predicate which will manage specification and one class for user which will manage user state.
So if you want to keep this syntax then you can set predicate as extension of user class but in js it's little tricky and not simple for beginner.
@Yann Bertrand
Although, I know you just posted your code as an example and although I know it is really nitpicky from me, but when looking at your code:
I see two things:
you have a method
isLoggedIn()
onuser
. From my POVuser.isLoggedIn()
is equivalent touserIsLoggedIn
. This is no win.userCanComment
is really better thanuser.score > 10
which is really bad. But, why is this no method on theuser
too?So you would end up with
and no extra variables needed.
@stephenmirving
That's a really unhelpful thing to say.
Pretending it's not... I'm a professional developer who has used Javascript on and off since it was first released (though it's not my primary language by any means). I wouldn't use a hack like that, because I think it's awkward and likely to cause confusion or problems farther down the line.
There are prefectly valid ways to do things that don't sacrifice readability; when someone tries to refactor it out later on because it seemingly does nothing, they'll be at fault for introducing a bug. I say the original author introduced the bug, and would pick that up in a code review.
Agreed! I was not inspired, thanks for going further 🙂
I am agreed with your improvement expect for adding predicate to user class.
This will break Single Reponsability principle.
I think it's better to make a class for predicate which will manage specification and one class for user which will manage user state.
So if you want to keep this syntax then you can set predicate as extension of user class but in js it's little tricky and not simple for beginner.
I do not quite understand. Starting with "classes". You could do that without classes at all. Plain objects will do.