[Moo] towel.js library: writing cleaner event-based code

[Barry van Oudtshoorn]

http://toweljs.org/
I saw this at Ajaxian, but not here! It's a library for MooTools that 
focuses on improving event-based code, written by Scato Eggen. It looks 
quite interesting; you can do things like this:

$ready().add(function() {
    var dragable = $('example-skid-dragable');

    var down = $towel(dragable).ui.down();
    var follow = $towel(dragable).fx.follow();
    var skid = $towel(dragable).phys.skid();

    down.add(follow);
    down.not().add(skid);
});

This will allow you to drag a node around, and have it keep moving 
(decelerating) in the direction of travel for a short while, which is 
pretty cool, especially in so few lines of code.

To be honest, some of the syntax doesn't quite sit with me; for example, 
writing
var event = $event(request, 'complete')
just seems, well, backwards -- it's a more procedural, rather than OO, 
style, at least to my mind.

Thoughts?

- Barry van Oudtshoorn
www.barryvan.com.au

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