"use strict"

[zenorocha]

Should we use it on these patterns?

[yckart]

I want to say yes! But, what is about those people who dont know about the "disadvantages"?!

[addyosmani]

+@sindresorhus

I'm tempted to say we should use it on these patterns and make a note about it in the readme/docs. An extract derived from John Resig's post about use strict:

Strict Mode is a feature in ECMAScript 5 that allows you to place a program, or a function, in a "strict" operating context. This strict context prevents certain actions from being taken and throws more exceptions.

Strict mode helps out in a couple ways:

• It catches some common coding bloopers, throwing exceptions.
• It prevents, or throws errors, when relatively "unsafe" actions are taken (such as gaining access to the global object).
• It disables features that are confusing or poorly thought out.

[yckart]

Maybe the document from MDN about "strict mode" is a better point to read for unsuspecting.

[addyosmani]

or that ^. I'd be down with either.

[sindresorhus]

Yes!

There are no downsides if you know what you're doing. For everyone else there's documentation, preferably the MDN one.

[addyosmani]

Let's get this in sometime soon.