Those 'internal' methods could also be prefixed with an underscore as
an easy solution to avoid conflicts. It is considered by many in the
PHP world as a convention and best-practice to prefix all protected
and private members with an underscore.

Just an idea.

-Trey

On Feb 24, 10:06 am, Robert Katić <[email protected]> wrote:
> @John
> jQuery uses some Sizzle internal details to gain some performance
> enhancements.
> If so, it is ok to me, but is it so much faster to pass jQuery empty
> instance to Sizzle to avoid an $.fn.setArray call? I suppose that
> array operations are pretty faster on Array instances.
>
> On Feb 23, 10:24 pm, John Resig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Well, currently it is necessary. The jQuery object is treated like an
> > array when it is passed in to the selector engine (and the selector
> > results are push'd, sort'd, and splice'd on accordingly).
>
> > It actually provided us with a decent speed-up, as well.
>
> > --John
>
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:19 PM, prefect <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I upgraded to jQuery 1.3.2 this evening, and was surprised by a weird
> > > bug on a simple page in my application. The bug turned out to be due
> > > to a conflict with a simple plugin I wrote for jQuery, which creates a
> > > jQuery method called 'sort'. Apparently jQuery 1.3.2 aliases three
> > > array methods onto the jQuery object, but is this really necessary?
> > > The comments even say "for internal use only", so isn't there a way
> > > you could do this without creating conflicts with external plugins?
>
> > > This is regarding lines 282-286 in jQuery 1.3.2:
> > > // For internal use only.
> > > // Behaves like an Array's method, not like a jQuery method.
> > > push: [].push,
> > > sort: [].sort,
> > > splice: [].splice,
>
> > > --
> > > Frode
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