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From: Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org>
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Subject: Re: calling function within (function() {...})();
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:13:33 +0100
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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. :-)