Re: [Moo] How to avoid using "that"?

[Ryan Florence]

$ and _ are just characters.  There's absolutely nothing magical about $.  
MooTools, jQuery and Prototype could have all picked `z` instead.  `z('li > 
a').fade('in')`.

var $__$ = 'valid'



On May 2, 2011, at 7:13 AM, hairbo wrote:

> (Dumb question alert)  You can precede a JS variable with a $?
> 
> Glad I started a healthy discussion.  I was afraid it was going to be a 
> lengthy discussion about how uninformed I am.  (-;