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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
