Hello,
Is it possible to initialize javascript function parameters (using MSIE
6.0 and above)? According to the link below, it seems possible to do
this. http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/j...ale/named.html
Why I keep getting error with the below code?
<!-- start sample code -->
<html>
<script language="javascript">
function myFunc(paramOne,paramTwo="This is Default Message"){
alert('First Parameter is '+ paramOne );
alert('Second Parameter is '+ paramTwo );
}
<!-- first call -->
myFunc("My First Parameter message","My Second Parameter
Message");
<!-- second call -->
myFunc("My First Parameter message");
</script>
</html>
<!-- end sample code -->
I am expecting it to show the 'This is Default Message' in the second
call.
Would somebody give me a hint?
Thanks,
hiroshi
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In article <40*********************@news.frii.net>,
Hiroshi Ochi <hi**********@nospam.com> wrote: Hello,
Is it possible to initialize javascript function parameters (using MSIE
6.0 and above)? According to the link below, it seems possible to do
this.
http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/j...ale/named.html
You'll note that this is a JavaScript 2.0 reference. I believe that IE
6.0 implements Javascript 1.5
Robert
Hi Robert,
Hmm, too bad. I think I'll just do the below workaround:
<!-- start sample code -->
<html>
<script language="javascript">
function myFunc(paramOne,paramTwo){
if(paramTwo == undefined)
paramTwo = someValue; // initialize default value
...
}
</script>
</html>
<!-- end sample code -->
thanks,
hiroshi
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Hiroshi Ochi <hi**********@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<40*********************@news.frii.net>... Hi Robert,
Hmm, too bad. I think I'll just do the below workaround:
<!-- start sample code -->
<html>
<script language="javascript">
function myFunc(paramOne,paramTwo){
if(paramTwo == undefined)
paramTwo = someValue; // initialize default value
...
}
</script>
</html>
<!-- end sample code -->
Comparing against undefined *may* be risky, and involve backward
compatibility problems. I'd go for: if(!paramTwo) - for an undefined
parameter test.
In fact JS has a good shortcut for your purpose:
if(paramTwo == undefined)
paramTwo = someValue; // initialize default value
becomes
paramTwo = paramTwo || someValue
Saint Jude said: Comparing against undefined *may* be risky, and involve backward
compatibility problems. I'd go for: if(!paramTwo) - for an undefined
parameter test.
In fact JS has a good shortcut for your purpose:
if(paramTwo == undefined)
paramTwo = someValue; // initialize default value
becomes
paramTwo = paramTwo || someValue
I doubt that undefined would be a problem with any
implementation of Javascript. On the other hand,
both of your methods assume that zero, false, and
"" are not valid parameter values.
Lee wrote: Saint Jude said:Comparing against undefined *may* be risky, and involve backward
compatibility problems. I'd go for: if(!paramTwo) - for an undefined
parameter test.
In fact JS has a good shortcut for your purpose:
if(paramTwo == undefined)
paramTwo = someValue; // initialize default value
becomes
paramTwo = paramTwo || someValue
I doubt that undefined would be a problem with any
implementation of Javascript. On the other hand,
both of your methods assume that zero, false, and
"" are not valid parameter values.
IE 4 doesn't like it; it produces the extremely helpful error message
"undefined is undefined." :)
But there is no need to risk the problem as - undefined - can be
implemented in unsupporting environments with:-
this.undefined = this.undefined;
-or:-
window.undefined = window.undefined;
- executed as inline code as the page loads.
Recent discussion on the identity operator - === - suggest that it has
probably moved into the set of more recent javascript features that can
now universally be relied upon as both Netscape 4 and IE 4 understand it
and they are the generation of browsers apparently now dropping out of
use. The identity operator doesn't type convert so identity comparison
with a normalised - undefined - should give an unambiguous result:
if(paramTwo === undefined){
... //paramTwo needs defaulting
}
- on current browsers without the risk of errors. But a - typeof - test
(if slower) should also produce a reliable result:-
if(typeof paramTwo == "undefined"){
... //paramTwo needs defaulting
}
- without any real language version concerns as typeof has been around
since JavaScript 1.1.
Richard.
Lee wrote: Saint Jude said:
Comparing against undefined *may* be risky, and involve backward
compatibility problems. I'd go for: if(!paramTwo) - for an undefined
parameter test.
In fact JS has a good shortcut for your purpose:
if(paramTwo == undefined)
paramTwo = someValue; // initialize default value
becomes
paramTwo = paramTwo || someValue
I doubt that undefined would be a problem with any
implementation of Javascript. On the other hand,
both of your methods assume that zero, false, and
"" are not valid parameter values.
Which is why it is probably best to test for precisely what the parameter
should be:
if (typeof paramTwo != 'string') {
paramTwo = 'default string';
}
- or -
if (typeof paramTwo != 'number') {
paramTwo = 0;
}
etc
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JRS: In article <40*********************@news.frii.net>, seen in
news:comp.lang.javascript, Hiroshi Ochi <hi**********@nospam.com> posted
at Thu, 13 May 2004 06:06:42 : Is it possible to initialize javascript function parameters (using MSIE
6.0 and above)?
function myFunc(paramOne,paramTwo="This is Default Message"){
...
Be aware that one can do something like
function myFunc(paramOne, paramTwo) {
if (!paramTwo) paramTwo = "This is Default Message"
....
But consider whether one might need to be able to supply such as 0,
false, NaN, ... for paramTwo.
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Lee <RE**************@cox.net> writes: I doubt that undefined would be a problem with any
implementation of Javascript.
In later versions of Javascript, "undefined" is merely a global
variable. In, e.g., IE 5, that variable was not defined, so writing
if (blah == undefined) ...
would give the undeclared variable error:
'undefined' is undefined
Kindof cute, really :)
/L
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Lee <RE**************@cox.net> wrote in message news:<c8********@drn.newsguy.com>... Saint Jude said:
Comparing against undefined *may* be risky, and involve backward
compatibility problems. I'd go for: if(!paramTwo) - for an undefined
parameter test.
In fact JS has a good shortcut for your purpose:
if(paramTwo == undefined)
paramTwo = someValue; // initialize default value
becomes
paramTwo = paramTwo || someValue
I doubt that undefined would be a problem with any
implementation of Javascript. On the other hand,
both of your methods assume that zero, false, and
"" are not valid parameter values.
Lee, you are absolutely right about zero, false etc. I realised while
doing my laundry. That syntax is unfortunately unsafe to use.
Re: undefined
I'm not so sure about this. Perhaps you can put me straight.
According to MS JScript specification, undefined requries
JScript 5.5 (IE 5.5+). So I would suggest:
if(typeof(arg)=="undefined")
instead.
BTW, which is the safer to use - typeof operator, or typeof function ? th**************@hotmail.com (Saint Jude) writes: BTW, which is the safer to use - typeof operator, or typeof function ?
There is no typeof function, only the operator.
Writing
typeof foo
and
typeof(foo)
is equivalent, just as
1+4
and
1+(4)
are. It's just a parenthesis around an expression.
/L
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Saint Jude said: I'm not so sure about this. Perhaps you can put me straight.
According to MS JScript specification, undefined requries
JScript 5.5 (IE 5.5+). So I would suggest:
if(typeof(arg)=="undefined")
instead.
Yes, that's actually what I always use. I posted in haste.
JRS: In article <c8********@drn.newsguy.com>, seen in
news:comp.lang.javascript, Lee <RE**************@cox.net> posted at Fri,
14 May 2004 07:16:51 : Saint Jude said:
Comparing against undefined *may* be risky, and involve backward
compatibility problems. I'd go for: if(!paramTwo) - for an undefined
parameter test.
In fact JS has a good shortcut for your purpose:
if(paramTwo == undefined)
paramTwo = someValue; // initialize default value
becomes
paramTwo = paramTwo || someValue
I doubt that undefined would be a problem with any
implementation of Javascript. On the other hand,
both of your methods assume that zero, false, and
"" are not valid parameter values.
Not quite; if one of them is a valid value then it can be the default.
P2 = 0
P2 = P2 || 0
results in P2 becoming the second 0 & no longer the first one, an
undetectable assignment.
ISTM that, in IE4,
X |= Y is X = X | Y
but X ||= Y is illegal. I wonder why.
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Hiroshi Ochi <hi**********@nospam.com> wrote: Hi Robert,
Hmm, too bad. I think I'll just do the below workaround:
<!-- start sample code -->
<html>
<script language="javascript">
function myFunc(paramOne,paramTwo){
if(paramTwo == undefined)
paramTwo = someValue; // initialize default value
...
}
</script>
</html>
<!-- end sample code -->
x == undefined evaluates to true if x is null. Use typeof paramTwo ==
"undefined" if that matters to you.
Regards,
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