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

From Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: calling function within (function() {...})();
Date 2011-11-09 20:13 +0100
Organization Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs
Message-ID <m2ipmt1542.fsf@nntp.bednarz.nl> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <j90o0s$vmv$1@dont-email.me> <m21utoav44.fsf@nntp.bednarz.nl> <8928443.SEqChMirdb@PointedEars.de> <c33a9a84-24ce-4a09-9935-0ed910fab9ea@x8g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <2015534.YEL58v44cs@PointedEars.de>

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:

[function declarations vs. methods in ‘private’ scope]

> Any potential safety gained this way only mitigates the unnecessary, 
> potentially harmful dependency introduced by Eric with the closure (by 
> contrast to the rather clean, original code).

The whole purpose of the clean, original code was to introduce closures
at some point. Well, either that, or there was a useless – albeit
refreshingly clean – function expression.

> It should be this.b(),
> not x.b().

It must be exhausting, having all those opinions. :-)

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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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