On Jan 2, 3:11 am, "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 1:33 am, jemptymethod <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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/44d80b9... > > I'm quite certain he was referring specifically to: > > var module = Module; > > And no, it doesn't execute anything.
I'm sorry, there cannot be any "agree to disagree" on this one. It absolutely, incontrovertibly, *does* execute -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
