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Re: calling function within (function() {...})();

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Eric Bednarz wrote:
>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:
>>> Eric Bednarz wrote:
>>>>>> window.setTimeout(x.a, 0);
>>>>>  window.setTimeout(function() { x.a(); }, 10);
>>>> You don’t say (I suppose creating a superfluous function object is
>>>> justified by not resolving those pesky identifiers first :^)
>>> The Function instance is not superfluous.  If you do not use the
>>> function expression here, then only the reference to `x.a' will be
>>> called, which means that `x.a' will be called as a method of the object
>>> that `window'
>>> refers to, or if you will, the global object.  As a result, `this' in
>>> `x.a' would not refer to the same object as `x', but to the other
>>> object.
>> 
>> That’s why I provided that example. I don’t know what makes you think
>> that you have to explain that (or what the ‘module pattern’ is) to me.
> 
> Your example does not make any sense.  Why call a method of a user-defined
> object as a method of the window/global object?

For that matter, why call it asynchronously on top of that?

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calling function within (function() {...})(); Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-04 23:18 +1100
  Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2011-11-04 14:06 +0100
    Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2011-11-04 14:13 +0100
      Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-04 15:49 +0100
        Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2011-11-04 16:35 +0100
          Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-04 20:44 +0100
            Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2011-11-04 21:16 +0100
              Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-04 21:24 +0100
                Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-04 21:46 +0100
                Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2011-11-04 23:29 +0100
        Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 10:29 -0700
          Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-09 15:17 +0100
            Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2011-11-09 20:13 +0100
              Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-11 23:26 +0100
                Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2011-11-11 23:31 +0100
                Re: calling function within (function() {...})(); Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-11-12 00:38 +0100

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