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tericho on Nov 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail

Thanks for making the library, glad to see you put lots of time into the docs too. Hopefully the can of worms you've opened doesn't drive you crazy, personally I would've stopped the second I found myself writing something like this...

$($($($('.nH .if').children()[1]).children()).children()[1]).children()[1]

:)

[1]https://github.com/KartikTalwar/gmail.js/blob/master/src/gma...

nilliams on Nov 27, 2013 [–]

To be fair, that's a pretty odd way to write jQuery, which is designed to be chained. It could be rewritten as:

    $('.nH .if')
      .children().eq(1)
      .children()
      .children().eq(1)
      .children().eq(1)

But if you were just pointing out how brittle it is, then yes, that's still apparent.

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