JSLint reports “Unexpected dangling” character in an underscore prefixed variable name

Question

I know that some people consider the presence of a leading underscore to imply that a variable is \"private,\" that such privacy is a fiction, and assume this is why JSLint

Answer 1

The best way to handle this is just to enable the "Tolerate dangling _ in identifiers" (nomen) option. See http://www.jslint.com/lint.html for details...