Hi NGan,

Your post finally pushed me over the edge into finishing a blog post
I've had in "editing" status for a while:
http://blog.niftysnippets.org/2009/09/private-methods-in-javascript.html

Hope that's useful,
--
T.J. Crowder
tj / crowder software / com
www.crowdersoftware.com


On Sep 10, 6:10 pm, Ngan <nganp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I apologize if this question has been asked before. I've tried
> googling for this, but did find a good answer.
>
> What's the best way to have private methods using prototype's
> Class.create?
>
> I've tried...
>
> var Worker = Class.create((function() {
>  function initialize() {
>    this.someVar = "var";
>    privateMethod();
>  }
>
>  function publicMethod() {
>    privateMethod();
>  }
>
>  function privateMethod() {
>    console.info(this.someVar);
>    console.info(this)
>  }
>
>  return {
>   initialize: initialize,
>   publicMethod: publicMethod
>  };
>
> })());
>
> Running this will give me:
> aWorker = new Worker();
> # console.info(this.someVar)  #=> undefined
> # console.info(this.someVar)  #=> DOMWindow
>
> However:
> aWorker.publicMethod() #=> WORKS!
>
> Thank you for your time!
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