Can somebody (meaning Asher) explain to me why this is even legal?

[Hauldren Collider]

<script type="text/javascript">
function wtf()
{
var a=null;
a.thisIsATerribleIdea=2;
//WHY?! WHY IS THIS ALLOWED? GOD DAMMIT I HATE YOU ALL
}
</script>

This is a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY (meaning I found it endlessly frustrating today at work).
I demand intervention from the INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE.

javascript

Note that I know hardly any javascript. I know plenty of PHP. Translating some javascript to PHP? Hate hate hate.

[Asher]

I hate Javascript because virtually everything is legal. Javascript is a 100% Libertarian's nightmare in a tech microcosm.

[Kuciwalker]

wait, what does that even do?

[Hauldren Collider]

it sets a equal to null
then it creates a child in a, which it sets to 2. a is now an object, of type null, that has a child integer with value 2.

[KrazyHorse]

I like it.

[Hauldren Collider]

Only because we have to suffer through it?
Physicists are the worst programmers anyway
CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY BUSINESSMEN

[KrazyHorse]

At least half of Goldman's codebase was written by physicists.

[Hauldren Collider]

It must be written in NA-ZI++

That was a terrible pun I know

[Asher]

I approve of your anger, but not of your puns.

[Asher]

The best programmers are angry programmers. It's true.

Code I develop for personal use is littered with profanity. I'm tempted to start doing in the code too, but it doesn't parse

[Fve Crathva]

You could embed it as a 38.5-integer array.

SP

[Hauldren Collider]

EDIT: nvm

[Asher]

Edit: code doesn't work on Poly

[Asher]

The main problem with Javascript is that the people who write in it tend to be stupid.

Here's code MS wrote for Sharepoint:

function DeferCall() {
    if (arguments.length == 0) {
        return null;
    }
    var args = arguments;
    var fn = null;
    if (browseris.ie5up || browseris.nav6up) {
        eval("if (typeof(" + args[0] + ")=='function') { fn=" + args[0] + "; }");
    }
    if (fn == null) { return null; }
    if (args.length == 1) {
     return fn();
    } else if (args.length == 2) {
        return fn(args[1]);
    } else if (args.length == 3) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2]);
    } else if (args.length == 4) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3]);
    } else if (args.length == 5) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4]);
    } else if (args.length == 6) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5]);
    } else if (args.length == 7) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6]);
    } else if (args.length == 8) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7]);
    } else if (args.length == 9) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7], args[8]);
    } else if (args.length == 10) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7], args[8], args[9]);
    } else {
        var L_TooManyDefers_Text = "Too many arguments passed to DeferCall"
        alert(L_TooManyDefers_Text);
    }
    return null;
}

(the purpose of the code is to get around IE5 Javascript limitations, but there's much better ways to do this)

[Hauldren Collider]

SURELY that is a joke.