Hahaha, well... I tend to only "make a fuss" about things as a reaction to others continually making a fuss to me over a given issue. In this particular case, I was basically reacting to the fact that I've had multiple people try to shout me down on this over the last year. And their obstinance on this matter is, to me at least, rather baffling.
But I do agree with your points. I've finally come to realize that much of the Holy-War-ish fighting over this comes down to me standing on the north side of the mountain and insisting that it's "southerly", while others are standing on the south side of the mountain and insisting that it's "northerly". When I finally started analyzing all of their (adamant) arguments, I realized that much of this comes down to perspective. And... nomenclature.
The only reason why I care about this issue at all (other than it being good fodder for a few articles), is that, IMHO, the terminology, used by some of those who want to scream that JS only passes-by-value, is downright harmful to the understanding of new devs.
When you show someone two different variables, and setting those variables has completely different side effects, and then you get up on your soapbox about "JS only passes by value!!!" Well... it is, at best, extremely disorienting.
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Hahaha, well... I tend to only "make a fuss" about things as a reaction to others continually making a fuss to me over a given issue. In this particular case, I was basically reacting to the fact that I've had multiple people try to shout me down on this over the last year. And their obstinance on this matter is, to me at least, rather baffling.
But I do agree with your points. I've finally come to realize that much of the Holy-War-ish fighting over this comes down to me standing on the north side of the mountain and insisting that it's "southerly", while others are standing on the south side of the mountain and insisting that it's "northerly". When I finally started analyzing all of their (adamant) arguments, I realized that much of this comes down to perspective. And... nomenclature.
The only reason why I care about this issue at all (other than it being good fodder for a few articles), is that, IMHO, the terminology, used by some of those who want to scream that JS only passes-by-value, is downright harmful to the understanding of new devs.
When you show someone two different variables, and setting those variables has completely different side effects, and then you get up on your soapbox about "JS only passes by value!!!" Well... it is, at best, extremely disorienting.