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Fixed 5170 diskette drive detection (40-track vs. 80-track drives)

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My (JavaScript) Coding Conventions
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Some ramblings about my JavaScript coding conventions. This is not an attempt to change anyone's mind
about anything, just an explanation of why things are they way they are (and will be more useful once PCjs
moves from a private to a public GitHub repository).
Some ramblings about my JavaScript coding conventions. This is not an attempt to convince anyone of
anything, just an explanation of why things are they way they are (and which will be more useful once PCjs
moves from a private to a public GitHub repository in the near future).
### Tabs vs. Spaces
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I still tend to follow Charles Simonyi's "[Hungarian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation)" naming
conventions -- or rather, a naming convention loosely inspired by Hungarian. I know lots of people sneer at
those conventions and think they're useless, and all I can say is, they're wrong: they are not useless to ME.
those conventions or simply think they're useless, and all I can say is, they're wrong: they are not useless to *me*.
I admit they may be useless to anyone who has a phenomenal memory and can remember that an obscure variable named
"foo" was initialized with a string or a number, or whose IDE can answer that question with the press of a key (or two),
"foo" was initialized with a string or a number, or whose IDE can answer the question with the press of a key (or two),
but for me, with my non-phenomenal memory and lazy fingers, I prefer being able to simply look at a variable to
immediately know what *type* of data it contains, if nothing else.
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- “throw” of exception caught locally
I acknowledge those those features can introduce bugs if you're not careful, so I make sure I'm careful. I don't
subscribe to the dogmatic approach that others (eg, the author of JSHint) take about so-called "risky" features.
subscribe to the dogmatic approach that others (eg, the author of JSLint) take about so-called "risky" features.
I agree that it's always a good idea to walk to the crosswalk before crossing a street, but I don't agree that it's
*never* a good idea to cross in the middle sometimes, too.