The YUI team always strives to make our files pass JSLint. Even if we don't always personally agree with these rules. Crockford enforces these rules for a good reason. When working with a large code base with hundreds, sometimes thousands of developers a strict rules set is a valuable development tool.

Every application that YUI creates to aid in development will follow by all 5 of the below lists.

The preferred list is the list that will think is the best to follow for our code now and in the future. These are limited to very few mainly language specific and our "predefined globals" list. With only 1 real rule that we turn off.

nomen is the only rule we disagree with. YUI coding standards are to prefix all private and protected methods and properties with an underbar (_) for a few reasons.

• It's very easy to tell at a glace
• When inspecting, these properties will group at the top/bottom of the list
• It's standardized, no API doc lookups to tell if you should use it

The optional list is the list that contains a few options that we would really like to remove from our code base, but due to it's size that's a little difficult to do all at once. Eventually, these will be removed and we will not use these options.

The default list is the combination of the preferred and default lists. If we have a tool that provides lint (shell script, builder, etc) they should have config options to choose from these settings.

We would however prefer that all scripts pass with no options set.

The special list contains options that should never be used file wide.

They should only be added at the method level with a comment that explains why they are needed.

For example, we use a whitelist approach to filtering an Object for performance in several places. In this case, we skip the hasOwnProperty check when iterating that object. In that case the developer should add the /*jslint forin: true */ comment only inside the function that they are calling the offending code..