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Add rule no-void #135

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Avoid useless void operator

Avoid useless void operator
@acarballo-cs acarballo-cs changed the title Update eslintrc.json Add rule no-void Nov 16, 2018
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LinusU commented Nov 16, 2018

Sounds good to me, I don't really see when one would need it 🤔

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feross commented Aug 13, 2019

This sounds good to me. Only one repo was failing and it was an easy fix: feross/chrome-net@8cc2520

Let's release this in standard 14.

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LGTM

@feross feross merged commit 5031de3 into standard:master Aug 13, 2019
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I was just recently contemplating whether there are useful usages of void. Do you feel like the ESLint rule doc lists all them? I never used it, even once. So I'd probably not miss it. Yet, I'm still wondering. How about non-leaky arrow functions?

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feross commented Aug 13, 2019

void is used so rarely and there are better alternatives, so it's probably easier to just ban it so most folks won't even have to learn what it is.

If I have to make an argument for void, I agree that non-leaky arrow functions is a reasonable one:

button.onclick = () => void doSomething()

However, you can do this with fewer characters like this:

button.onclick = () => { doSomething() }

And this avoids the need to understand a new concept. So it's clearer, IMO.

Of course, you can always add an eslint ignore comment if you really need to use void for some reason and nothing else works.

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No argument here.

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I find void to be a more elegant solution to the "semicolon prefix" workaround to the ASI problem.

void (() => { /* some iife */ })()
// vs
;(() => { /* another iife */ })()

but this is kind of a style choice.

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I use void 0 as a shorthand for undefined, but this is probably confusing and something I should stop doing anyway. Especially given that undefined can't be redefined anymore. 👍

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feross commented Aug 19, 2019

Especially given that undefined can't be redefined anymore. 👍

Yep! So happy about this change!

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