Maddeningly, JavaScript will spit out an error-message to its console and keep going.

I could not possibly disagree more and this sounds like it was written someone who doesn't even have 10 years of experience, let alone 30. JS would stop, even freeze the browser in the early days on meaningless errors and there were no built in, or even optional install, dev panels. That was objectively maddening and why I stayed away from JS for years till the tools and default behavior in browsers improved.

You can also pause on exceptions/errors and step through the code with all the modern dev panels so there is no excuse for complaining about how JS will keep going. That is a matter of choice for the professional developer.

In reply to Re^2: JSON Return Values by Your Mother
in thread JSON Return Values by tultalk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.