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From: JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Source code "objectifying" technique?
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:34:35 +0000 (UTC)
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Sometimes I need some a library from the web, but its functions are all 
globally defined instead of object based. For example:

var config=123;
function abc(){
  //does something
}
function def(){
  //does something else
}
function ghi(a){
  a=a||config;
  abc(def(a));
}
function jkl(a){
  a=a||config;
  def(a);
}

I want to put all those functions in a self contained object so that 
accessing them would be like:

theLib.abc();
theLib.ghi();
theLib.abc();
theLib.abc(456);

Usually I would convert each functions including all of the references 
like below.

theLib={};
theLib.config=123;
theLib.abc=function(){
  return theLib.config;
}
theLib.def=function(){
  return theLib.config*10;
}
theLib.ghi=function(a){
  a=a||theLib.config;
  theLib.abc(theLib.def(a));
}
theLib.jkl=function(a){
  a=a||theLib.config;
  theLib.def(a);
}

As you can see, this is a tedious work. Even for a 2KB code. Is there a 
simpler way to do this?