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On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Balazs Endresz <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> I've just had a look at r6344 and there seems to be an extra argument
> in jQuery.event.add but that function hasn't been modified (yet?).
> And maybe it's been mentioned before but if you're really adding this
> feature why not do the same with $.each? Hopefully no one uses the
> internal `args` argument and it would be at least as useful as for
> events.
>
> On May 5, 3:44 pm, Brandon Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:
> > How about "thisObject"? Taken from Mozilla's docs for the forEach method
> (https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Object...
> ).
> > --
> > Brandon Aaron
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Michael Geary <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't find this feature all that useful myself, since my callback
> > > functions tend to be a mix of jQuery/DOM, setTimeout, Google
> Maps/Earth,
> > > and
> > > other asynchronous APIs. If I can only bind an object to a callback in
> one
> > > of those types of APIs and not the others - or if they each sprout
> > > independent ways of doing it - I may as well just use a closure so I
> have
> > > one way to handle them all.
> >
> > > But I've seen that a lot of people do like this capability, so I
> certainly
> > > don't object to it, unless of course it slows down my own code.
> >
> > > My one request: please do not call it "scope"! Not in the code, not in
> the
> > > comments, and not in the docs.
> >
> > > JavaScript has something called scope, and you create it by nesting
> > > functions lexically (or using the "with" statement). Setting the "this"
> > > value for an event or other callback isn't related in the slightest to
> > > scope.
> >
> > > If you need a name for the concept, you could describe it as "binding
> an
> > > object to the event handler" or - probably better - "calling the event
> > > handler as a method of an object". I don't know of a short and sweet
> word
> > > for it, but "scope" is already taken. :-)
> >
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > > -Mike
> >
>


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Christopher Thatcher

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