[Jonathan Feinberg]

Is there any way to disable the bogus JavaScript warning “A dot following a number can be confused with a decimal point”?

        var dialog = new YAHOO.widget.SimpleDialog("internalError", {
****      effect: {effect:YAHOO.widget.ContainerEffect.FADE, duration: 0.25}, 
            fixedcenter:true, 
            modal:true, 
            draggable:false
        });

(The flagged line is marked with ****).

Version: 5.1.0 GA
Build id: 20061111-5.1.0-GA

Thanks.

[Riyad Kalla]

MrFeinberg,
I believe it just wants you to quote the value, that will make it happy.

[Jonathan Feinberg]

@support-rkalla wrote:

I believe it just wants you to quote the value, that will make it happy.

Why would I want to quote a numeric literal? The ECMAScript spec says that an object literal is

ObjectLiteral :
    {}
    { PropertyNameAndValueList }

PropertyNameAndValueList :
    PropertyName : AssignmentExpression
    PropertyNameAndValueList , PropertyName : AssignmentExpression

PropertyName :
    Identifier
    StringLiteral
    NumericLiteral 

AssignmentExpression :
    ConditionalExpression
    LeftHandSideExpression AssignmentOperator AssignmentExpression 

And ConditionalExpression ultimately bottoms out in

PrimaryExpression :
    this
    Identifier
    Literal
    ArrayLiteral
    ObjectLiteral
    ( Expression ) 

where Literal includes numeric literals. So, seeing as my syntax is good, why would I want to use the wrong type? I believe this is a bug in the validator, plain and simple.

[Riyad Kalla]

My appologies, I agree it looks to be a bug, I was trying to find a quick workaround for you.

[jyutzler]

Yet here we are in version 5.5.1 and we still have this stupid warning, yet the validator still can’t identify an extraneous comma that makes IE collapse in a heap. It makes me wonder if we are in 2007 or 1977.

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