openlayers/openlayers — comment on commit b351734cf642193b0469d0cd0bd330e90f946db4
File: lib/OpenLayers/Request/XMLHttpRequest.js line 252
By jorix:

It is in the hands of the OpenLayers team to choose the way.

On the other hand I still believe interesting to use the Closure Compiler to detect undefined variable. But my suggestions have been discarded. I periodically compile the code, and I report new errors, but this is not the system!