Ross Gammon wrote: >Package: wnpp >Severity: wishlist >Owner: Ross Gammon <rossgam...@mail.dk> >X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > >* Package name : node-defined > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Author : James Halliday <m...@substack.net> >(http://substack.net) >* URL : https://github.com/substack/defined >* License : Expat > Programming Lang: JavaScript > Description : return the first argument that is `!== undefined` > > Most of the time when you chain together ||s, you actually just want the > first item that is not undefined, not the first non-falsy item. > . > This module is like the defined-or (//) operator in perl 5.10+. > . > Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine. > >This package is required for tape >(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798278) and will be >maintained within the Debian Javascript Team.
YA tiny Javascript "library" containing 3 lines of utterly trivial code. :-( I appreciate you're just following through a dependency chain from upstream for tape, but please push back on upstream and ask them why they're doing this kind of ridiculous split-up. Code re-use in general is a good plan, but not at the level of every trivial helper function being split out into its own library! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
