On Jan 1, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Peter van der Zee wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:17 AM, jemptymethod <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 1, 10:08 am, jmulligan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I do something similar with my lib (http://github.com/avoidwork/
> > abaaso) that's under dev. It works well, but you can't use private and
> > public. they're reserved.
> 
> That's why I slap "$" on front of private and public.
> 
> 
> Instead of $ (dollar) prefix, you could also _ (underscore) prefix private 
> methods. That way you don't have to artificially grow your (public) method 
> names with php-like ugliness. I personally use the $ prefix for variables 
> returned by libraries like jquery or prototype. To easily distinct those from 
> regular dom (or other) vars.
> 
> I think the underscore is kind of the js-way, but I don't really have 
> anything to back that up so somebody might correct me on the issue :)
> 
> Whenever I see $ prefixed vars, and they're not clearly used to distinct var 
> contents, I usually suspect a php user. Especially if they don't use `var` :p
> 
> - peter 

i also use _ to hint the developers that the method is intended to be private.
i use $ as the result for jQuery

like instead to have myElement i use $myElement this way i give the hint that 
the API is the jQuery API and not the HTMLElement API

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