Currently these methods accept a large number of parameters, which creates quite unwieldy call-sites. When invoking them, you have to remember not only what arguments to supply, but also the correct order, to avoid runtime errors.
Furthermore, since some of the parameters are optional, you also have to remember to pass e.g. `null` or `undefined` for those ones.
Also, adding new parameters to these methods (which happens occasionally), often becomes unnecessarily tedious (based on personal experience).
Please note that I do *not* think that we need/should convert *every* single method in `evaluator.js` (or elsewhere in `/core` files) to take parameter objects. However, in my opinion, once a method starts relying on approximately five parameter (or even more), passing them in individually becomes quite cumbersome.
With these changes, I obviously needed to update the `evaluator_spec.js` unit-tests. The main change there, except the new method signatures[1], is that it's now re-using *one* `PartialEvalutor` instance, since I couldn't see any compelling reason for creating a new one in every single test.
*Note:* If this patch is accepted, my intention is to (time permitting) see if it makes sense to convert additional methods in `evaluator.js` (and other `/core` files) in a similar fashion, but I figured that it'd be a good idea to limit the initial scope somewhat.
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[1] A fun fact here, note how the `PartialEvaluator` signature used in `evaluator_spec.js` wasn't even correct in the current `master`.
Note that we have to use `fs.writeFileSync` since `.to()` is not
available anymore. Moreover, introduce `safeSpawnSync` to make sure that
we check the return codes of the spawned processes properly.
To run the regression tests, developers use `gulp browsertest` and the
bot uses `gulp bottest`. We're not passing the `noreftest` option
anywhere in the code (probably because the `bottest` command takes care
of this already), so we should remove this.
Note that by using `let` instead of `var` in `PartialEvaluator.setGState` and `TranslatedFont.loadType3Data`, we can get rid of further `bind` usages since `let` is block-scoped.
Also, the fact that `bind` wasn't used in the `Font` case inside of `setGState` is actually a bug which has been present ever since PR 5205, where a closure was replaced by a standard loop.[1]
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[1] I'm not aware of any bugs caused by this, but that is probably more a happy accident than anything else, since e.g. just removing the `bind` from the `SMask` case without using block-scoped variables causes test failures.
Please note that I used the addon debugger to set a breakpoint in the `unload` function, in order to ensure that `this` still correctly refers to the `FindEventManager` scope.
Please see http://eslint.org/docs/rules/object-shorthand.
Unfortunately, based on commit 9276d1dcd9, it seems that we still need to maintain compatibility with old Node.js versions, hence certain files/directories that are executed in Node.js are currently exempt from this rule.
Furthermore, since the files specific to the Chromium extension are not run through Babel, the `/extensions/chromium/` directory is also exempt from this rule.
Please see http://eslint.org/docs/rules/object-shorthand.
For the most part, these changes are of the search-and-replace kind, and the previously enabled `no-undef` rule should complement the tests in helping ensure that no stupid errors crept into to the patch.
