http://united-coders.com/taxonomy/term/70/0 en http://united-coders.com/matthias-reuter/all-about-types-in-javascript-type-detection <!--paging_filter--><p>This is the fourth (and last) part of a series "All about types" in Javascript.</p> <ol> <li><a href="http://united-coders.com/matthias-reuter/all-about-types">The basics - types and general rules of conversion</a></li> <li><a href="http://united-coders.com/matthias-reuter/all-about-types-part-2">Automatic type conversion</a></li> <li><a href="http://united-coders.com/matthias-reuter/all-about-types-part-3">Explicit type conversion</a></li> <li>Type detection</li> </ol> <p>The drawback of having a loosely typed language like Javascript, is that you sometimes have to determine the current type of a variable. This mostly occurs when you create a function that accepts different types of parameters - or is limited to one type.<span class="read-more"><a href="/matthias-reuter/all-about-types-in-javascript-type-detection"><strong>Read more</strong></a></span></p> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://united-coders.com/matthias-reuter/all-about-types-in-javascript-type-detection" dc:identifier="http://united-coders.com/matthias-reuter/all-about-types-in-javascript-type-detection" dc:title="All about types in Javascript - Type detection" trackback:ping="http://united-coders.com/trackback/29" /> </rdf:RDF> --> <div class='sexybookmarks-default-3216'></div> http://united-coders.com/matthias-reuter/all-about-types-in-javascript-type-detection#comments javascript type detection Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:43:06 +0000 Matthias Reuter 29 at http://united-coders.com