On Jan 1, 6:56 pm, RobG <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The use of $ may be Ok in ECMA-5, but it still grates with me. If you
> want to be able to safely access "private" variables and objects, you
> need privileged functions that are available externally.
Which my "module" code plainly provides
>
> > return (function() {
> > $private.init();
> > $public = {};
> > return $public;
> > })();
> > })();
>
> > var module = Module;
>
> Which does nothing other than assign a reference to Module to module.
> It doesn't execute anything, only built-in constructors can be called
> that way when used with "new".
Did you run the code? It absolutely executes. Please consider
consulting another current thread entitled beginning "Immediately
invoked function":
http://groups.google.com/group/jsmentors/browse_thread/thread/44d80b9e7cf3998a
$public.init logs to console, and you get back an object, albeit
empty, since this is merely a template; you of course augment $public
with the methods you would like to expose via the public interface.
Try this:
var module = Module;
console.log(module);
and then consult Firebug:
$private.init invoked
Object
> Variables starting with a capital letter are, by convention, reserved
> for constructors.
And modules
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