How to safely wrap `console.log`?

Question

Suppose I want to include some calls to console.log for some legitimate production reason, say for something like a unit test harness. Obviously I would not want th

Answer 1

coffeescript:

empty_function = ->
  return
if !window.console?
  window.console = {}
  for fn in ['log', 'info', 'warn', 'debug', 'error']
    if (typeof window.console[fn] isnt 'function')
      window.console[fn] = empty_function

js:

(function() {
  var empty_function, fn, i, len, ref;

  empty_function = function() {};

  if (window.console == null) {
    window.console = {};
    ref = ['log', 'info', 'warn', 'debug', 'error'];
    for (i = 0, len = ref.length; i < len; i++) {
      fn = ref[i];
      if (typeof window.console[fn] !== 'function') {
        window.console[fn] = empty_function;
      }
    }
  }

}).call(this);